Chapter 8: Intelligence Throughout the Life Span Flashcards
Because _____ is a hypothetical construct, psychologists have disagreed on how to define it. Different tests, therefore, ask different questions and may measure different ____.
intelligence
abilities
The capacity to acquire and use knowledge.
intelligence
The total body of acquired knowledge.
intelligence
A major questions related to intelligence has been “does intelligence consist of a single core factor or does it consist of many separate, ______?
unrelated abilities
Spearman concluded that cognitive abilities could be narrowed down to one critical g-factor, or _____ intelligence.
general
JP Guilford proposed that intelligence consists of ____ distinct abilities.
150
LL Thurston used a ______ technique known as factor analysis to find 7 independent primary mental abilities; numerical ability, reasoning, verbal fluency, spatial visualization, perceptual ability, memory, and verbal comprehension
statistical
Raymond Cattell argued that a g-factor does exist, but cognitive ability consists of ____, reasoning and problem solving) and crystallized intelligence (specific knowledge gained from applying _____).
fluid intelligence
fluid intelligence
Sternbery proposed a _____ theory of intelligence that specifies 3 important parts of intelligence componential intelligence (includes metacomponents, perfomance components, and knowledge acquisiton components) experiential intelligence, and contextual intelligence.
triarchic theory of intelligence
Gardner’s theory of _____ proposed seven different components of intelligence that include not only language ability, logical-mathematical thinking, and spatial thinking but also musical, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal,and intrapersonal thinkng.
multiple
Early interest in intelligence testing dates back to the eugenics movement of _____.
Sir Frances Galton
Galton believed that it is possible to improve genetic characteristics (including intelligence) through ____.
breeding
The 1st effective test of intelligence was devised in the early 1900s by French psychologist ______.
Alfred Binet
Binet was appointed by the French Ministry of Public Instruction to design an intelligence test that would identify children who needed to be removed from the _____ classroom so that they could receive special instruction.
regular
Binet and his colleague Theodore Simon devised an intelligence test consisting of ____ subtests containing problems of increasing difficulty. The items on the test were designed to measure children’s judgement, reasoning, and ______.
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comprehension
The first test was published in 1905 and then was revised in ____ and 1911.
1908
The 1908 revision of the Binet and Simon scale introduced the notion of _____.
mental age
______ is a measure of a child’s intellectual level that is independent of the child’s chronological age (actual age).
Mental age
Shortly after Binet’s original work, Terman of Stanford University and his colleagues helped refine and _____ the test for American children. Their version came to be the _____ intelligence scale, and its latest revisions are still being used today.
standardize
stanford-binet
Terman and others (Stern of Germany) developed the idea the IQ or ______ (sometimes referred to as the ratio IQ score).
intelligence quotient
To calculate IQ, a child’s mental age (MA) (as determined by how well he or she does on the test) is divided by his or her ______ and multiplied by 100.
chronological age (CA)
The major advantage of the IQ score over simple MA is that it gives an index of a child’s IQ test performance relative to others of the same _______.
chronological age
The major problem with the ration IQ score is that most people’s mental development slows in their ____. But a MA may remain fairly stable throughout adulthood, CA _____ over time. Using CA as the divisor in the IQ formula, therefore, results in an individuals IQ score diminishing over time (even though MA has not changed)
late teens
increases
David Wechsler corrected this problem with ratio IQ scores by devising the _____ IQ score.
deviation