intelligence

Question 1

how is intelligence defined by spearman?

Answer 1

a general reasoning ability

Question 2

what is the definition of abilities?

Answer 2

the cognitive traits implicated in solving problems

Question 3

what are the two classes of intelligence theories?

Answer 3

factor analytic

information processing

Question 4

what do factor analytic theories focus on?

Answer 4

identifying the ability or groups of abilities that constitute intelligence

Question 5

what do info processing theories focus on?

Answer 5

identifying the specific mental processes that constitute intelligence

Question 6

what did spearman’s two factor theory propose?

Answer 6

the existence of a general intellectual factor that is partially tapped by all other abilities

Question 7

what did thurstone argue?

Answer 7

that g was a statistical artefact arising from the mathematical procedures used to study it

Question 8

what did thurstone propose?

Answer 8

that intelligence is defined by seven, independent, primary mental abilities

Question 9

what were thurstones abilities?

Answer 9

verbal comprehension
reasoning
perceptual speed
numerical ability 
word fluency
associative memory
spatial visualisation

Question 10

what was guilfords model?

Answer 10

structure of intellect model with 120 independent factors

Question 11

what was gardners model?

Answer 11

theory of multiple intelligences

Question 12

what were gardner’s intelligences?

Answer 12

logical-mathematical
bodily-kinethetic 
linguistic
musical
spatial
interpersonal
intrapersonal

Question 13

what did cattell propose?

Answer 13

that the g factor breaks into fluid intelligence and crystalised intelligence

Question 14

what were horn’s broad ability factors?

Answer 14

quantitative knowledge 
short term memory
visual processing 
auditory processing 
long term retrieval 
processing speed
correct decision speed
reading/writing

Question 15

what is carroll’s model?

Answer 15

three sratum thoery of cognitive abilities

Question 16

what is the top stratum?

Answer 16

general ability

Question 17

what is the second stratum?

Answer 17

broad abilities

Question 18

what is the third stratum?

Answer 18

narrow abilities

Question 19

what are primary abilities or first order factors?

Answer 19

factors that emerge when the correlations between a battery of tests covering the spectrum of abilities are subjected to factor analysis

Question 20

what are the second order factors?

Answer 20

fluid and crystallised intelligence then a host of lesser abilities

Question 21

what are third order factors?

Answer 21

inductive reasoning, visualisation, quantitative reasoning and verbal ability

Question 22

what factors does the stanford-binet test?

Answer 22

fluid reasoning
knowledge
quantitative reasoning
visual spatial processing
working memory

Question 23

what does the stanford binet yield?

Answer 23

a full scale IQ
abbrieviated battery IQ score
verbal IQ score
non verbal IQ sore

Question 24

what is the WAIS made up of?

Answer 24

subtests designated as either core or supplemental

Question 25

what factors does the WAIS focus on?

Answer 25

verbal comprehension
perceptual reasoning
working memory
processing speed

Question 26

what does the raven’s matricies measure?

Answer 26

ability to make sense of complexity and store/reproduce information

Question 27

what does ravens matrices test?

Answer 27

fluid intelligence

Question 28

what are the mil-hill and crichoton scales?

Answer 28

vocabulary tests

Question 29

what do the scales test?

Answer 29

crystallised intelligence

Question 30

what does the culture fair test test?

Answer 30

tasks that seem to reflect experiences, knowledge and skills common to different cultures