Chapter 8 Intelligence and Academic Achievment

Question 1

Those qualities that help us adopt successfully so that we achieve out goals of life.

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Intelligence

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Intelligence that allows us to quickly and effectively solve novel problems for which we have little training.

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Fluid Intelligence

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What we already know and can drawn on to solve problems.

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Crystallized Intelligence

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The age level at which a child is performing on a test of mental ability .

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Mental Age

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Originally a measure of intelligence calculated based in the ratio of a child’s mental age to chronological age, largely replaced now by the deviation IQ.

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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A measure of intelligence that is bases on the individuals deviation from the norms for a given test.

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Deviation IQ

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A testing procedure that focuses on the process used in problems rather than the product that results from the process.

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Authentic Assessment

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The range of potential outcomes for any given genotype

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Range of Reaction

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The increase in intelligence test scores that has occurred over time, necessitating the renorming of the test.

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Flynn Effect

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Motivation that comes from inside a person

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Motivation that depends on receiving an incentive or an award

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Gardners idea that there are a number of different types of intelligence that are relatively independent of each other.

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Theory of Multiple Intelligences

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Sternbergs idea that intelligence represents balance of analytical, creative, and practical abilities.

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Triarchic Theory

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The type of intelligence that is the one closest to “g” or general intelligence and the one prized highly in most schools.

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Analytical Intelligence

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The ability to generate ideas and to deal successfully with novelty.

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Creative Intelligence

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The ability to find as man y possible solutions to a problem as possible rather than the correct solution

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Divergent Thinking

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Finding one correct solution for a problem

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Convergent Thinking

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The ability to solve everyday problems by changing ourselves or our new behavior to fit the environment better, changing the environment, or moving to a different environment in which we can be more successful.

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Practical Thinking

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A type of intellectual impairment that begins early in life and includes deficits in intellectual,social, and adaptive functioning.

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Intellectual Disability

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Persistent difficulty with learning that is substantially below the average and cannot be better explained by another problem. Specific areas of difficulty include reading, writing, arithmetic.

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Specific learning disorder (SLD)

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Children and youth who exhibit high performance capability in intellectual, creative, and artistic areas, possess an unusual leadership capacity or excel in specific academic fields

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Gifted Children

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A conception of a giftedness as the intersection of above average intellectual ability, creativity, and task commitment

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. Three-ring model of giftedness

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For the gifted where the curriculum is covered but in greater depth, breadth or complexity than is done in a typical classroom

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Enrichment Approach

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For the gifted where students move through the standard curriculum but more quickly than is typical.

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Accelerated Program

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Thinking that is novel and that produces ideas that are of value

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Creativity

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The type of creativity we use in everyday life to solve problems and adapt to change.

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Small-c Creativity

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The type of creativity that transforms a culture by impacting the way we think or live or lives.

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Big- C Creativity

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An educational approach that places students of similar ability in learning groups so they can be taught at a level that is most appropriate for their level of understanding

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Ability Grouping

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Promoting a child who has not mastered grade-level material to keep the child in a class with same- age peers.

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Social Promotion

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The anxiety that results when individuals feel they are behaving in ways that confirm negative stereotyped expectations of a group with which they identify

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Stereotype threat

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A measure of a persons automatic, unconscious associations between different concepts

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Implicit Association

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Deeply held beliefs that influence our behaviors in academic settings.

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Academic Mindsets

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The effect that the expectations of others can have on ones self-perception and behavior

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Expectancy Effects

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The process by which expectants or beliefs lead to behaviors that help ensure that you will fulfill he initial prophecy or expectation.

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Self- fulfilling Prophecy