chapter ten (intelligence) Flashcards
intelligence
acquire knowledge
think and reason effectively
adapt to the environment
alfred binet
indentify children preforming poorly in school
developed tsts to determine “mental age”
eg. 10 year old with mental age of 7
intelligence quotient (IQ)
IQ=(mental age/chronological age) x 100
stanford-binet
verbal items
wechsler intelligence scale for children (WISC)
verbal tests and proformance tests
several subtests for category
verbal IQ; performance IQ, full scale IQ
Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)
standardized test
test results have been collected from a large representative sample of the population
normal distrubution
bell shpaed curve
most common=arereage
psychometric approach
statistical study of psychological tests
what mental abilities underlie intellgience?
use of factor analysis (what measure correlate highly with others)
G factor
spearmean; smarts dtermine by ‘general intellgience’ or G
is your performance in univeristy course highly correlated different types of intellgience tests are correlated
thurstone’s primary mentaal abilties
performance on mental tests are not highly correalted seven distinct primary mental abiltities
crystalized and fluid intellgience
compromise b/w spearman (g factor) and thurstones ability
crystallized iintelligences
apply previous knowledge to current problem
trivial pursuit, jeopardy, vocabulary
fluid intellgience
solve novel problems without need of previous experience
reason abstractly, think logically, good working memory
we progress from using fluid to dpending more on crystallized
broader concepts of intellgeinces: gardner
lingustic
logical-mathematical
visuo-spatical
muscial
bodily kinesthetic (skillful movements)
interpersonal/intrapersonal (understand ourselves/others)
naturalistic (understanding of the real world)
MSCEIT- emotional intellgience test
ability to percieve emotion
using meotion to faciliate thought
understanding emotions
mangaging emotions
