Cognitive Assessment Flashcards

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what is intelligence? (4)

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  1. abstract thinking
  2. learning from experience
  3. solving problems through insight
  4. adjusting to new situations
  5. focusing/sustaining one’s abilities to achieve a goal
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4 major traditions in approaching intelligence

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  1. Psychometric
  2. information processing
  3. neuro-biological
  4. developmental
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psychometric approches

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assumes intelligence is a trait in which there are individual differences started with Binet

normally distributed on the bell curve

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4
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whats is “g?”

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considered the most basic measure of intelligence

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5
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what 4 categories combine to make the FSIQ on the WAIS

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VCI, WMI, PRI, and PSI

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Three Stratum Model

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  1. g
  2. fluid intelligence
  3. crystallized intelligence
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Fluid intelligence - Gf (3)

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  1. problem solving
  2. non-verbal, culture free
  3. increases with age until 14, levels off at 20, then declines
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Crystalized intelligence -Gc (5)

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  1. environmentally determined
  2. vocabulary & information
  3. relatively permanent
  4. develops from interaction
  5. stable until age 40, then declines
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Cattell, Horn, & Carroll (CHC) Model

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merging two systems - Weshsler + C&H

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what 4 categories combine to make the FSIQ on the WISC

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VCI, WMI, VSI-FRI, and PSI

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Processing speed

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speed of apprehension, scanning, retrieving, and responding to stimuli

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Five Factor Model (Keith Factors)

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  1. verbal comprehension
  2. Working memory
  3. visual spatial
  4. fluid reasoning
  5. processing speed
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13
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information processing (2)

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  1. Structural (sensory reception, short/long-term memory)
  2. Functional (manipulations and transformations)
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Information processing model/Triarchic Theory - Sternburg

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  1. metacomponents - planning, monitoring, evaluating
  2. performance - administering instructions of meta components
  3. knowledge - learning how to to do something
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Alexander Luria - 3 brain systems

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  1. arousal
  2. sensory
  3. executive
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epigenetics

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DNA along with environment impact intelligence

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developmental approaches - Piaget

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as a person grows, they continually reorganize structures to adapt to environment - assimilation & accommodation.

we construct reality in increasingly symbolic terms.

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developmental approaches - Vygotsky

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intelligence comes from social origin
- zone of proximal development
- static testing
- dynamic testing

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dynamic testing

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ability to profit from guided instruction. examinee is given guides and feedback to measure latent potential.

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cognitive assessment system (CAS) - 3 characteristics

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  1. based on Luria’s pass system
  2. ages 5-18
  3. 13 subtests (attn, planning, simultaneous, and successive
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21
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who introduced the Triarchic model

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sternberg

22
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who introduced the “multiple intelligence”

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Gardner

23
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who introduced emotional intelligence

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goleman

24
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Three types of Triarchic intelligence

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analytical, creative, and practical

25
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Three types of intelligence based on Waterhouse

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multiple intelligences, Mozart effect, and emotional intelligence

26
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commentary on Gardner

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he redefined intelligence to be measures by success.

27
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Mozart effect

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listening to Mozart briefly improved students’ ability to perform a very specific spatial reasoning task

28
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heuristics

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enabling someone to discover or learn something for themselves.

29
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credo consolans

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if we like it or it makes us feel good, we are more likely to accept it

30
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immediate gratification

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ideas are attractive if it offers instant solutions for difficult problems

31
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easy explanations

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offering a simple story about something difficult

32
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current gold standard of measuring intelligence

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psychometric model

33
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how did Weshler describe intelligence

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the capacity to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with their environment

34
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three types of scores on the WAIS

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Raw scores, scaled scores, and IQ/index scores

35
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misuse of IQ testing

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eugenics; sterilization; falsely claimed that white ppl have high IQ than other races

36
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what is the biggest and most systemic confound in measuring intelligence?

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language

37
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the Flynn effect

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secular increase in population intelligence quotient (IQ) observed throughout the 20th century; roughly uniform over time and across age ranges; some evidence to suggest this effect is plateauing as we reach peak social environments

38
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Possible reasons for the Flynn effect

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nutrition, television, test sophistication, higher SES, urbanization, better education, and video games

39
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White-Black differences

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gap is 5.5 IQ points

40
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White-Asian differences

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similar IQ, tho Asian people have higher achievement scores (i.e., SATs); likely related to Asian culture surrounding achievement

41
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jewish & non-jewish differences

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jewish heritage typically has 7-15 points higher on IQ scores; may be cultural and/or biological

42
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Genetic and environmental factors (3)

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  1. both cause affects
  2. heritability of IQ - 0.4-0.8
  3. heritability is only relative to the population studied.
43
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IQ tests as predictors for school performance

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seemingly ubiquitous correlation; test scores are the best predictor of years of education

44
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social class and heritability

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  1. low SES = almost all IQ variance is accounted for by environmental factors and not genetics
  2. as SES increases = variance explained by environment decreases, genetics increases
  3. high SES = explained by teens and little by environment.
45
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cultural bias factors (5)

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  1. content bias
  2. standardization bias
  3. language bias
  4. construct mismatch
  5. differential validity
46
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labeling bias

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test claims to measure one thing, but really measures another thing

47
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content bias

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test questions would be more familiar to one culture than others

48
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methodological bias

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assess mastery of a skill or body of information in a way that underestimates the competence of one group relative to another

49
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stereotype threat

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powerful influence on performance; shown in multiple populations (i.e., elderly and shot-term memory)

50
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stress and IQ (3)

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  1. chronic stress chan damage the brain
  2. greater in low income
  3. low stress is important for IQ
51
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self-regulation skills

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having these skills result in higher-level cognitive functioning and a result of higher-level functioning.

52
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cautions with intelligence testing

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  1. no one test tells us everything
  2. measurement is imperfect
  3. no test is free of bias
  4. consistent history of misuse of testing
  5. non-cognitive factors (i.e., stress)
  6. language/stereotyping
  7. results do not equal fact
  8. hard to determine long-term effects
  9. not inclusive of art/creative IQ
  10. does not reflect past experience
  11. limitations on held values of different people