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Exam 1: Ch. 4 Flashcards

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Intelligence

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Problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to and learn from experiences

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Intelligence Tests: The Binet Test

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Used to measure intelligence
provides a general score with
-verbal reasoning
-quantitative reasoning
-abstract/visual reasoning
-short-term memory
-can be used for a wide age range (2-23 yrs old)
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Mental age

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an individuals level of mental development relative to others

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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a persons mental age (MA) divided by chronological age (CA) multiplied by 100

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Average and gifted IQ’s are

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100-average

135- gifted

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Intelligence Tests: The Wechsler Scales

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-used to assess students intelligence
-“Age-related” versions provide an overall IQ and verbal and performance IQ
WPPSI-II: Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, ages 4-6
WISC-IV: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children ages 6-16
WAIS-III: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

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Intelligence Tests: Aptitude vs. Achievement Tests

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Aptitude Test- assesses one’s “potential” to learn a specialized area
Achievement Tests- assesses one’s “actual knowledge” and skill attainment

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Sterberg’s Triarchic Theory

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intelligence comes in three forms:

  • analytical
  • creative
  • practical
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Sterberg’s Triarchic Theory: Analytical Intelligence

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ability to analyze, judge, evaluate, compare, and contrast

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Sterberg’s Triarchic Theory: Creative Intelligence

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ability to create, design, invent, originate, and imagine

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Sterberg’s Triarchic Theory: Practical Intelligence

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ability to use, apply,, implement, and put into practice

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Gardner’s Eight Frames of Mind

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a set of intelligences that are biologically determined:

  • linguistic/verbal
  • logical/mathematical
  • musical
  • spatial
  • bodily-kinesthetic
  • naturalist
  • interpersonal (others)
  • intrapersonal (self)
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Emotional Intelligence

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  • Ability to perceive and express emotion accurately and adaptively,
  • Understand emotion and emotional knowledge
  • Use emotion/feelings to facilitate thought
  • Manage emotions in oneself and others
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Nature and Nurture Issue

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issue that involves the debate about whether development is primarily influenced by nature (an organism’s biological inheritance) or nurture (environmental experiences)

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Nature

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-A child’s biological inheritance

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Nurture

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  • Positive effects of early intervention
  • Increasing scores on IQ tests
  • Effects of schooling on intelligence
  • Reciprocal effects of schooling and intelligence

Environmental experiences

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Ethnicity and Culture:

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  • Ethnic comparisons

- cultural bias and culture-fair tests

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Culture-Fair Tests

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tests of intelligence that are intended to be free of cultural bias

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Impulsive/Reflective styles

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also referred to as “conceptual tempo, they involve a student’s tendency either to act quickly and impulsively or to take more time to respond and reflect on the accuracy of the answer

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Impulsive/Reflective styles: impulsive students

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  • tend to act quickly/ often make more mistakes

- not always bad if you tend to react fast but get the right answers

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Impulsive/Reflective styles: reflective students

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-tend to take more time to respond

  • remembering structured info
  • reading comprehension
  • problem solving and decision making
  • setting high standards
  • make less mistakes
  • more likely to set own goals
  • do well on tasks

-might reflect forever about problems and have difficulty finishing tasks

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Deep/Surface Learners

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involve whether students approach learning materials

(deep style)- in a way that helps them understand the meaning of what materials or …

(surface style)-to learn only what needs to be learned

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Deep Learners

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  • actively construct knowledge
  • give meaning to material
  • focus on internal rewards
  • are self-motivated
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Surface Learners

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  • are passive learners
  • fail to tie information to a larger framework
  • focus on external rewards

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