Exam 3 Flashcards
Chapter 8 - Chapter 11
Intelligence as a Single Trait
Some researchers view intelligence as a single trait that influences all aspects of cognitive functioning
General Intelligence (g)
influences ability on all intellectual tasks
Crystallized Intelligence
Factual knowledge (word meanings, capital of countries, math)
Fluid Intelligence
Ability to think on the spot (problem solving, inferential thinking)
Sternberg’s Theory of Successful Intelligence
In his view, success in life reflects people’s ability to build on their strengths, compensate their weaknesses and select environments in which they can be successful
Sternberg’s Three Fundamental Aspects of Intelligence
- Analytic = academic, what’s measured by traditional intelligence tests
- Creative = reasoning in novel circumstance, fining a way to problem solve
- Practical = reasoning about everyday problems, ringing a way to get to school after missing bus
Components of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory
- Though that concept of intelligence and traditional tests of intelligence are too limited
- types of intelligence = spatial, linguistic, music ability, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalistic, and interpersonal
- proposes that people possess at least 8 kinds of intelligence
Advantages of Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence
its optimistic message - that children have a variety of strengths on which parents and teachers can build - has led to its having a large influence on education
Limitations of Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
- No reliable/valid tests of domains like musical or bodily-kinesthetic
- Not clear that these other domains are “forms of intelligence” rather than “special talents”
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
relative measure of intelligence
IQ Relation to Success
- IQ scores are a strong predictor of academic, economic, and occupational success
- Correlated quite strongly with school grades and test scores
- The better the IQ score = the better the job = better money
Genetic Contributions to Intelligence
- The genome substantially influences intelligence
- Increases with age - some genetics do not exert their effects until late in childhood
- All known correlations between individuals’ alleles of genes and IQ are very small
There is no Intelligence gene
Family Contributions to Intelligence
- Niches in the family “the smart one” “the athletic one”
- How much the family values education, number of books in the house, frequency of intellectual conversations
Societal Contributions to Intelligence
Effects of Poverty
- poor diet
- poor health care
- lack of intellectual stimulation
- poor schooling
HOME Scores
Home Observation of Measurement of the Environment
- correlated highly with IQ scores at 4.5 years old and correlated highly with school achievement
Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development
- Oral - first year of life, basic needs met by oral stimulation (eating drinking)
- Anal - second year of life, biological maturation, potty training
- Phallic - ages 3-6, interested in genital, superego emerges, desire to avoid guilt
- Latency - ages 6-12, sexual desire unconscious, energy into social and intellectual pursuits
(if fundamental needs are not met in any given stage, you become fixated on them and get stuck in that phase)
Id
present form birth, innate biological drives, pleasure principle
Ego
emerges later in first year, stands for reason and good sense, reality principle, develops into sense of “self”
Superego
emerges between 3-6, conscience, enables you to control behavior, results from internalization of social rules
Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development
- Basic Trust vs. Mistrust
- Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
- Initiative vs. Guilt
- Industry vs. Inferiority
- Identity vs. Role Confusion
Basic Trust vs. Mistrust
- first year of life
- success = sense of trust
- failure = sense of mistrust
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
- ages 1-3.5
- teach kids rules while still allowing freedom
- success = sense of autonomy
- failure = sense of shame/doubt
Initiative vs. Guilt
- ages 4-6
- successful internalization of parents’ standards = development of conscience
- success = sense of independence
- failure = sense of guilt
Industry vs. Inferiority
- ages 6 to puberty
- crucial for ego development
- successful = sense of competence
- failure = sense of inferiority
Identity vs. Role Confusion
- teens to early adulthood
- achieve sense of identity, “who am I?”
- success = strong sense of self
- failure = confusion about what roles to take on
Conditioning
- we tend to repeat behaviors that are rewarded but not those that are punished
- every behavior is a result of reinforcement history
- intermittent reinforcement makes behaviors resistant to extinction
- there is more difficulty of extinguishing behavior that has been intermittently reinforced
Watson’s Behaviorism
children are products of social environments, parents should distance themselves and be objective with children (don’t kiss your children its better to shake hands)
Bandura’s Social Learning Theory
Bobo Doll Study
- will kids imitate aggressive acts they see preformed?
- kids less likely to imitate if model is punished
- even if did not imitate, would produce the behavior if given incentive
- boys were more physically aggressive, but girls were aggressive too if given inventive
Systematic Desensitization
technique used to eliminate anxiety/phobias through controlled exposure
Behavior Modification Strategy
- adjusting reinforcement contingencies to promote desired behavior and deter unwanted behavior
- “time out” removed reinforcement so that unwanted behavior is not rewarded
Hostile Attribution Bias
- a general expectation that other are antagonistic to them
- leads children to search for evidence of hostile intent
- like to conclude that retaliation is the appropriate response to peer’s behavior
- early harsh parenting predicts social information-processing biases that persist into early adulthood