Chapter 11 Flashcards
Viewing an abstract immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing.
Reification
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
Intelligence
A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test that measure common ability.
Factor analysis
First intelligence theorist
He helped come up with the factor analysis approach. g factor: General mental ability
Charles spearman
Rejected g factor. Didn’t rank his subjects on a single scale of general aptitude. Argued that factor analysis revealed seven independent mental abilities.
L.L. Thurstone
8 multiple intelligences
Howard Gardner
Low iq score, but has an island of intelligence.
Savant syndrome
Agrees with thurstone and Gardner but suggests three intelligences rather than eight.
Robert sternberg
Emotional intelligence
The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
Ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
Creativity
A method for assessing an individual’s mental altitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
Intelligence test
Intellectual qualities cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.
Alfred Binet
Measure of intelligence test; chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance.
Mental age
Nurture over nature, intelligence is determined by the way you grew up and what kind of environment you grew up in.
Lewis terman
Widely used American revision of binets original intelligence test.
Stanford-Binet
A test that is intended to predict a persons future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.
Aptitude test
A test designed to reflect what a person has learned.
Achievement test
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group.
Standardization
The symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychilogical attributes
Normal curve
Intelligence test performance has been improving.
Flynn effect
The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting.
Reliability
The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
Validity
The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.
Content validity
The behavior (such as future college grades) that a test is designed to predict; thus, the measure used in defining whether the test has predictive validity.
Criterion
The success which a test predicts, the behavior it is designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior.
Predictive validity
When a person has an IQ below 70
Mental retardation
A physical disorder characterized by mental retardation as a result of an extra chromosome in the persons genetic makeup.
Down syndrome
A self confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
Stereotype threat
Ration of mental age(ma) to chronological age(ca) multiplied by 100
(IQ=malcax100)
Intelligence quotient
Most widely used intelligence test, contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests
Wechsler adult intelligence scale WAIS
