intelligance Flashcards
intelligance
set of mental abilities and tallents you can employ to achive goals by overcoming challenges
measure mental capacity
solve problems
reaction to stimuli
recall information
detect patterns
intelligance in allied health
understanding and assitingpeople with interllectual problems
clients with impaired cognitive proccess
they face hardships in everyday life
intelligence test use
measure and quantify
IQ
mental age/ chronical age x 100
limitations of intelligence test
valid
meaning of test differences
social and policy problems
assumptions are made
assumptions made from intelligence test
familarity with language used
familiarity with cultural references
experience in test taking
motivation
expected form of answers
social issues with intelligence test
reinforce social hierachy
reinforce sterotypes
spearmans g factor
cognitive ability tends to correlate with other
shared factor
sub factors of intelligence
verbal vs non-verbal- welsher scales
fluid vs crystallised ( body of knowledge) -cattell-horn
gardners multiple intelligence= 8+ domains
genitics
intelligence is heritability
envrionmeny
access to education
childhood nutrition
successful/ dangerous circumstences
early intervention on developmental delays
higher parental age
exsposure to toxic chemicals
representive heuristic
our tendency seek out confirmation of our pre-exissiting steriotypes can overwhelm simple reasoning
anchoring effect
based on erroneous belief because they have belief that it is now a 50/50 chance
base rate neglect
the tendency to ignore relevant statistical information in favor of case-specific information.
