Chapter 11 Flashcards
Viewing an abstract immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing.
Reification
Intelligence
Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
Factor analysis
A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test, used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie ones total score.
Charles spearman
Helped develop factor analysis and general intelligence.
General intelligence (G Factor)
A factor that according to spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and is there for measured by every task on an intelligence test.
L. L. Thrustone
Rejected the g factor didn’t rank his subjects on a single scale of general aptitude. 7 mental abilities
Howard Gardner
Stated that people have specific intelligence potential each involving a set of problem solving skills. 8 multiple intelligences different sections.
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability had an exceptional specific skill. (Autism, great at one thing!) easy a
Savant syndrome
Robert sternberg
Triarchic theory distinguishes three intelligences: analytical, creative, and practical.
Emotional intelligence
The ability to precise and understand manage and use emotions.
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
Creativity
Intelligence test
A method of assessing an individuals mental aptitudes.
Alfred Binet
Started the modern intelligence movement by developing questions that helped predict children’s future progress
Mental age
A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet. The chronological age that most typically corresponded to a give level of performance.
Stanford university prof. Revised binets original IQ test by establishing new age norms and extending the upper end of the tests range from teens to adults.
Lewis terman
