exam 3

Question 1

Wechsler IQ test

Answer 1

meant to test verbal comprehension, reasoning, working memory and processing speed.
-measures general intelligence using 2 broad factors:
verbal & performance skills
- separate test for preschoolers and school age children
- 3 versions

Question 2

lesion

Answer 2

region of damaged tissue

Question 3

spatial ability

Answer 3

ability to generate retina, retrieve and transform well structured visual images

Question 4

WAIS

Answer 4

• Wechsler adult scale
• great subtest difference :
  arithmetic (male) males excel
  digit symbol (female) female excel

spatial ability diffs:
emerge at 8 years and are consistent by 12-13 years of age
* metal rotations show considerable male-female difference

Question 5

WISC

Answer 5

-(Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) is an IQ test administered to
- children between ages 6 and 16 by school districts and psychologists
- The objective of the exam is to understand whether or not a child is gifted, as well as to determine the student’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses.

Question 6

WPPSI

Answer 6

-Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
- is an intelligence test
- children ages 2 years 6 months to 7 years 7 months
- developed by David Wechsler in 1967
-it is a descendant of the earlier Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children tests.

Question 7

tacit knowledge

Answer 7

knowledge that is difficult to express or extract, and thus more difficult to transfer to others by means of writing it down or verbalizing it
- things you ned to know but are’t tough or “street smarts”

Question 8

Sternberg

Answer 8

• known for triarchic theory of intelligence; has 3 parts ( practical, creative, and analytical intelligence )
• psychologist and psychometrician
• said Gardner’s intelligence is not intelligent behavior

Question 9

Galton

Answer 9

• Francis galton
  -sensory and motor function
• twin study
  -theory by measuring people’s strengths, physical attributes, hearing
• accessed this as a good way to view intelligence
• founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology, as well as the lexical hypothesis of personality

Question 10

Cattell

Answer 10

• originated 2 categories of intelligence: fluid and crystalized intelligence
• theory: intelligence is determined by genetics

Question 11

Spearman

Answer 11

• Britain
• test intercorrelate positively
• general vs specific abilities

Question 12

Binet

Answer 12

• judgement and reasoning
• IQ formula

Question 13

Simon

Answer 13

judgement and reasoning

Question 14

Simplex

Answer 14

if two test given close in time the correction is higher than when they are given father in time

Question 15

”s”

Answer 15

specific factor, unique to given test

Question 16

“g’

Answer 16

shared factor

Question 17

strand deviation of IQ

Answer 17

15

Question 18

Variance of IQ

Answer 18

225

Question 19

Selective placement

Answer 19

trying to place children with families who are similar in a many ways as possible to the natural parents

Question 20

virtual twins

Answer 20

same age
- unrelated children raised together
- no genetic link
ex. adopted - adopted
ex. adopted - biological child

Question 21

full adoption design

Answer 21

• adopted away child
• adopted parents of that child
• biological parents of that child

Question 22

partial adoption design

Answer 22

biological parents - biological kids
adoption parents - adoption kids

Question 23

adoption designs

Answer 23

• showed that biological relatives reared in separate environments were similar due to genes
• also unrelated people living together were still somewhat alike because of the shared environment

Question 24

gardner

Answer 24

multiple intelligence
- said Sternbergs model is not rooted in the brain

Question 25

fluid intelligence

Answer 25

basic info processing skills
- detecting relationships among stimuli, analytical speed, working memory

Question 26

crystallized intelligence

Answer 26

skills that depend on:
- accumulated knowledge experience, good judgement, mastery of social convo and values by persons culture

Question 27

triarchic theory (sternberg)

Answer 27

• info processing problems are not real life problems, IQ measures school learning, doing well in school = doing well in life
• componential (internal): includes info processing for ex; strategy application

-contextual sun theory: adopting to the environment for ex; we adopt, shape and select

• experimental intelligence: mastery and automaticity for ex; we master a problem so it become automatic such as driving

Question 28

hierarchical theory

Answer 28

highly-influential way of organizing human needs from the most “basic” to the most advanced
- Maslow
bottom to top
- physiological needs
-safety needs
- love and belonging
- esteem
- self-actualization

Question 29

IQ score

Answer 29

very superior: 130 +
superior: 120-129
high average: 111-119
average : 90-110
low average: 80-89
borderline: 70-79

Question 30

IQ/ mental age formula

Answer 30

mental age / chronological age x 100

Question 31

multiple intelligences (Gardner)

Answer 31

the idea that people have many different type of intelligence that are independent of one another

Question 32

aphasia

Answer 32

speech dysfunction

Question 33

lesion

Answer 33

region of damaged tissue

Question 34

aphasia

Answer 34

speech dysfunction

Question 35

agraphia

Answer 35

inability to write

Question 36

agnosia

Answer 36

inability to recognize faces

Question 37

agnosia

Answer 37

inability to recognize faces

Question 38

Alexia

Answer 38

inability to read

Question 39

discrepancy theory

Answer 39

Donald Hebb
- degree of difference (discrepancy) between the new object/ event and what the child knows is responsible for the reaction