Cognitive Assessment Flashcards
what is intelligence? (4)
- abstract thinking
- learning from experience
- solving problems through insight
- adjusting to new situations
- focusing/sustaining one’s abilities to achieve a goal
4 major traditions in approaching intelligence
- Psychometric
- information processing
- neuro-biological
- developmental
psychometric approches
assumes intelligence is a trait in which there are individual differences started with Binet
normally distributed on the bell curve
whats is “g?”
considered the most basic measure of intelligence
what 4 categories combine to make the FSIQ on the WAIS
VCI, WMI, PRI, and PSI
Three Stratum Model
- g
- fluid intelligence
- crystallized intelligence
Fluid intelligence - Gf (3)
- problem solving
- non-verbal, culture free
- increases with age until 14, levels off at 20, then declines
Crystalized intelligence -Gc (5)
- environmentally determined
- vocabulary & information
- relatively permanent
- develops from interaction
- stable until age 40, then declines
Cattell, Horn, & Carroll (CHC) Model
merging two systems - Weshsler + C&H
what 4 categories combine to make the FSIQ on the WISC
VCI, WMI, VSI-FRI, and PSI
Processing speed
speed of apprehension, scanning, retrieving, and responding to stimuli
Five Factor Model (Keith Factors)
- verbal comprehension
- Working memory
- visual spatial
- fluid reasoning
- processing speed
information processing (2)
- Structural (sensory reception, short/long-term memory)
- Functional (manipulations and transformations)
Information processing model/Triarchic Theory - Sternburg
- metacomponents - planning, monitoring, evaluating
- performance - administering instructions of meta components
- knowledge - learning how to to do something
Alexander Luria - 3 brain systems
- arousal
- sensory
- executive
epigenetics
DNA along with environment impact intelligence
developmental approaches - Piaget
as a person grows, they continually reorganize structures to adapt to environment - assimilation & accommodation.
we construct reality in increasingly symbolic terms.
developmental approaches - Vygotsky
intelligence comes from social origin
- zone of proximal development
- static testing
- dynamic testing
dynamic testing
ability to profit from guided instruction. examinee is given guides and feedback to measure latent potential.
cognitive assessment system (CAS) - 3 characteristics
- based on Luria’s pass system
- ages 5-18
- 13 subtests (attn, planning, simultaneous, and successive