Intelligence

Question 1

How were modern intelligence tests created?

Answer 1

by Binet to measure a childs mental age

Question 2

What introduced the intelligence quotient?

Answer 2

stanford-binet test

Question 3

What do modern deviation scores indicate?

Answer 3

where people fall in the normal distribution for there age

Question 4

Are IQ tests valid for measuring academic/verbal intelligence?

Answer 4

yes but not social or practical intelligence

Question 5

Are IQ tests used in non western cultures?

Answer 5

not really

Question 6

What is sternberg’s theory of intelligence?

Answer 6

three facets, analytic, creative, and practical

Question 7

What is gardner’s theory of intelligence?

Answer 7

8 facets, linguistic, logical-math, musical, spatial, bodily/kin, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic

Question 8

What does intellectual disability refer to?

Answer 8

mental activity below 70 accompanied by deficits in adaptive skills, originating behaviour before 18

Question 9

What are the levels of intellectual disability? What is majority?

Answer 9

mild, moderate, severe, profound

mild

Question 10

What is intellectual disability usually caused by?

Answer 10

genetic/biological cause, unfavourable environment factors

Question 11

What is the drudge theory?

Answer 11

extraordinary acheivement depends on extensive training and monumental effort

Question 12

What does savant mean?

Answer 12

refers to individuals who typically have below average IQ but are remarkable in very specific areas

Question 13

What do twin studies show? What does this suggest?

Answer 13

identical twins are more similar in intelligence than fratenral (identical siblings raised apart are more similar than fratenrla raised together)

intelligence is at least prtially inherited

Question 14

What do adoption studies show?

Answer 14

adopted children resemble their biological parents in intelligence

Question 15

What is a heritability ratio?

Answer 15

estimate of proportion of trait variability in a population that is determined by genetic varaiton

Question 16

What do studies of environment enrichment and deprivation show?

Answer 16

childrens IQ changes in response to altered circumstances

Question 17

What is the flynn affect?

Answer 17

performance on IQ tests have increased over the years

Question 18

What is the reaction range model?

Answer 18

genetics sets limits to intelligence and environment determines where in that limit a person falls

Question 19

What is reliability?

Answer 19

Refers to measurement consistency of a test

Question 20

What is a child’s mental age?

Answer 20

The age that lines up with the displayed mental ability of a child

Question 21

What is an intelligence quotient?

Answer 21

IQ found by dividing child’s mental age by actual age and multiply that by 100

Question 22

What is factor analysis?

Answer 22

Correlations among variables are analyzed to indenting closely related clusters of variables

Question 23

What is fluid intelligence? What is crystallized intelligence?

Answer 23

Reasoning ability, mental capacity and speed of information processing

Ability to apply acquired knowledge and skills to oslve problems

Question 24

What is convergent versus divergent thinking?

Answer 24

Try to narrow down a list of alternatives to converge on correct answer

Try to expand the range of alternatives by generating many possible solution

Question 25

What is reification?

Answer 25

Occurs when a hypothetical abstract concept is given a name and treated as a concrete tangible object

Question 26

What does appealing to ignorance mean?

Answer 26

Using a lack of information to support your argument

Question 27

What is -+3 on normal curve?

Answer 27

Intellectually disabled or gifted both rare

Question 28

What is the general factor theory of intelligence?

Answer 28

Assume that intelligence is a thing that can’t be tested and it is a unitary attribute

Spearman g factor is general ability that underlies a specific skill

Question 29

What predicts work performance better than IQ

Answer 29

EQ