Cognitive Psychology: Intelligence and Testing Flashcards
Standardization sample
A group of people who represent the entire population
Reliability
A measure of how consistent a test is in the measurements it provides
Validity
The extent to which a test measures what it is interred to measure
Internal validity
The degree to which the subject’s results are due to the question being asked an not another variable
External validity
The degree to which results from the test can be generalized to the real world
Intelligence
Goal-directed adaptive thinking
Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT)
A series of pictures of people in ambiguous relationships with other people, with the participant tasked in generating a story to accompany each picture
g factor
General intelligence
Robert Sternberg
Intelligence could be broadly defined as having three major components: analytical, practical, and creative intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Being able to recognize people’s intents and motivations
Crystallized intelligence
Accumulated knowledge
Fluid intelligence
The ability to process information quickly and to solve new problems
Heritability coefficient
A rough measure of the proportion of variation among individuals that can be attributed to genetic effect (about 0.5–half of variation due to nature, half due to nurture)
