Drills 1 Flashcards
1
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- Ethics can be defined as the formulation of principles to
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Guide Behavior
2
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- The WAIS is an example of a(n) ______ test
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Individually Administered test
3
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- In the 1921 symposium published by the Journal of Educational Psychology, leading psychologists tried to address the questions on intelligence like what it exactly is. It can be said that this symposium
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Generated more heat among the professionals than light on the subject
4
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- During the 1980s, Sternberg and his associates asked laypeople, and academics and experts on what words do they associate with academic intelligence. Experts viewed academic intelligence as something more on ____, while laypeople viewed academic intelligence more on its _____ aspects
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Motivational; social
5
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- He anticipated PERCEPTION-RELATED tests of intelligence as he believed that the most intelligent people are equipped with the best SENSORY ABILITIES. He also worked on the HERITABILITY of intelligence, and viewed intelligence as a DISTINCT PROCESSES.
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Francis Galton
6
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- He launched the movement on intelligence testing and critiqued Galton’s view saying that when one solves a problem, the ABILITIES USED CANNOT BE SEPARATED because they interact to produce the solution. He also wrote about components of intelligence (MARJ), but he didn’t leave an explicit definition for the construct
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Alfred Binet
7
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- Compared to its contemporaries, this was able to better group tests due to exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic explorations done. This test is the
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WAIS-III (Perceptual Organization, Processing Speed, Working Memory, Verbal Comprehension)
8
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- He sees intelligence as an indivdual’s AGGREGATE or GLOBAL CAPACITY to act purposefully, think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment. But he does not equate intelligence to the mere sum of these abilities.
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David Wechsler
9
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- This Swiss psychologist went with the reasoning that as cognitive skills are gained, ADAPTATION increases and MENTAL TRIAL AND ERROR replaces physical trial and error. Meaning that psychological structures become reorganized as a consequence of environmental interactions.
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Jean Piaget
10
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- Andy is a 5 year old boy who likes to play with his figures and his twin sister’s dolls. Andy always says that his fire fighter figure would actually go to college, while his sister’s Barbie doll will be an engineer. What stage is Andy on in Piaget’s theory on cognitive development?
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Pre-Operational Stage
11
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- Jane and her parents went to a park. “Mommy, look a pretty bird!” she exclaimed as she saw a butterfly. Her parents chuckled and corrected her that it’s called a butterfly and is an insect and not a bird. Jane is exhibiting what basic mental operation?
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Accomodation
12
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- These theories of intelligence focused more on identifying the specific mental processes constituting intelligence. These theories are grouped under
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Information-processing theories
13
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- Spearman assumed that tests with highly positive correlations with other intelligence scales are saturated with what intellectual ability factor?
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G
14
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- The essential component of Guildford’s theory of structured intelligence
a. Intelligence is a fixed capacity of a person
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Personnel selection and placement, and education of gifted and talented children
15
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- Horn modified Cattell’s theory by proposing the addition of several factors. He also mentioned that some factors like short term memory (Gsm) and visual provessing (Gv) DECLINE WITH AGE, and tend not to return to preinjury levels of brain damage. These factors are also called
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Vulnerable Abilities
16
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- Carroll in his three-stratum theory of cognitive abilities is a hierarchical model meaning that all of the abilities listed in a stratum are subsumed by or incorporated in the strata above. He puts the Gc and Gf in which stratum?
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Second Stratum
17
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- The main difference with Carroll’s three-stratum theory of cognitive abilities and McGrew and Flanagan’s CHC model is that
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The authors did not employ g in their CHC model
18
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- Fran loves looking at paintings. She loves looking at the magnificent images, the bright colors and appreciating the painting as a whole. Aleksandr Luria would describe Fran’s visual information processing as
a. Successive
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Simultaneous
19
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- The proponents of the PASS model of intellectual functioning argued that intelligence tests do not adequately assess what?
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Planning
20
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- He was the first to propose the verbal performance dichotomy in intelligence testing and believed that personality was a crucial part of intelligence
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David Wechsler