Chapter 9

Question 1

What is Galtons claim to intelligence?

Answer 1

Intelligence is the byproduct of sensory capacity meaning most knowledge comes through our senses.
Therefor, people with superior sensory abilities should acquire more knowledge than other people

Question 2

Who developed the first intelligence test to recognize higher mental processes?

Answer 2

Binet and Simon

Question 3

Intelligence consists of?

Answer 3

Reasoning abstractly
Learn to adapt to novel environmental circumstances
Acquire knowledge
Benefit from experience

Question 4

Spearman

Answer 4

General Intelligence

g - strength of our mental engines
s - skills in narrow domains

How well we perform is not only based on our general smarts (g) but also our skills (s)

Question 5

What is Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence?

Answer 5

F - the capacity to learn new ways of solving problems. More likely to decline with age, g.

C - accumulated knowledge of the world we acquire over time. Openness to experience.

Question 6

Gardners Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Answer 6

“Frames of Mind”

Intrapersonal
Bodily-Kinesthetic
Musical
Logico-Mathematical
Interpersonal
Naturalistic
Spatial
Linguistic
Existential

Question 7

What is the Triarchic Model

Answer 7

Model of intelligence

Analytical - reason logically, book smarts
Practical - street smarts, social, real world problems, tacit
Creative - ability to come up with novel and effective answers to questions, music and poems

Question 8

Stanford-Binet IQ test

Answer 8

Vocab, Picture Memory, Naming Unfamiliar objects, Repeating sentences, and Following commands

Using norms to deterrmine if intel scores are above or below those of similar ag and by how much

Question 9

Sterns IQ Formula

Answer 9

divide mental age by chrono age and multiple the result by 100