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IQ

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Intelligence Quotient

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Sir Francis Galton

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-statistician,eugenist MANY things
-many methods
-first person to start studying intelligence
-Darwin’s cousin

-intelligence was charitable and Fixed
-eugenics

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Alfred Binet

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-test for kids to determine which need help
-malleable intellect
-intelligence like a muscle
-poor marks deficiency not stupidity

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Lewis Terman

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-adapted tests for America
-standardized them
-thousands of children of diff ages
-bell curve of performances
-Norming- indication of what a group does know
-norming and standardization increase reliability if the test
-realm of eugenics

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Simon Binet test

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Test for intelligence mostly for kids
With tasks and ability to deal with them at age levels

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David Wechsler

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Adult intelligence scale

Most commonly used IQ test

Intelligence is multifaceted

Overall score of IQ

Intelligence is changeable

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Adult intelligence scale

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Verbal comprehension
Visual spatial
Fluid reasoning
Working memory
Processing speed

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Bell curve

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Mean
Standard deviation

Score 70- intellectual disability
Cognitive delays deficits in adaptive funct
Struggle meet community standards

Gifted 130+ (lower mortality rate)

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Flynne effect

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Intelligence increases over years

Re norm IQ test so that average is 100 every couple years

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Raymond Cattel

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Fluid intelligence

Working memory
Mental gymnastics

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Crystallized intelligence

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Stable and increasing intelligence
Accumulate knowledge

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Analytical intelligence

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Academic problem solving, analysis, compare contrast, what well use midterm (Robert Sternberg)

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Creative intelligence

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Finding novel solutions to common problems
(Robert Sternberg)

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Practical Intelligence

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Street Smarts, navigating job interviews, most different from traditional understanding of intelligence, think on feet (Robert Sternberg)

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Howard Gardner
Eight intelligences

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Intrapersonal, linguistic, interpersonal, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, naturalist

Independent of each other
Plus a 9th later - existential intelligence
Ability to ponder big questions
No measure for each of them
Inter/intra, displays emotional intelligence

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Emotional Intelligence

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What emotions an event will trigger
Identify, describe and manage their emotions
Know how to use their emotions to improve decisions
Identify other’s emotions
Easy - less neural activity when solving emotional problems
Better social skills
Better romantic and workplace relationships
Happier, healthier, more satisfactions

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Intelligence and Culture

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Socially constructed

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EG boring

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Ability to learn from experience,
solve problems,
adapt to new situations

Intelligence measures ability to achieve goals in a
wide range of environmetns

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Heritability intelligence

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The proportion of the difference in IQ scores that is explained by differences in genes
50 - 70%
Strong genetic component to our intelligence - though not the be all end all
Difference in environment and difference of genes

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Twin studies

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Monozygotic twins
100% genetics
Dizygotic twins
50%
Parent and biological child
50%
Adoptive parent
0%

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Test bias

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Cultural bias
IQ tets based on specific cultural knowledge
Geared towards white children
This was taken (1900s) as evidence do why non white races were genetically inferior

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Modern IQ tests

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deny cultural bias - more technical

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Range of reaction theory

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Our genes set limit son given characteristics
Our environment determines to which degree our genes are expressed
EX perfectly good identical soil - one no light no water one light and water, same potential different outcomes

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Social economic status ladder

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Higher numbers = rivher/economic status
Genes correlate strong with intelligence
Lower rung
Env differences are more important

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Stress Impairs

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Working Memory

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Neuroimaging and stress

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Prefrontal cortex
Working memory, planning, concentration, executive function lives here
Children in poverty haveless activity in the pre frontal cortex than those not
Impairment was simila rto children whose prefrontal cortext was damaged

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Range of reaction theory

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Env determines to which degree our genes are expressed

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We can improve IQ (before 5)

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Nutrition
Early education
Complex env
mobile/toys
Social economic status
(before 5)

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We can improve IQ (NOW)

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Exercise
Ritalin - increases frontal lobe
Magnet over brain - brain waves
Train brain

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IQ test takeaway

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Less emphasis on IQ test
Strongest predictors of success
Hardwork
Schools practice IQ in tests
Post school IQ drops
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