Intelligence Flashcards
How were modern intelligence tests created?
by Binet to measure a childs mental age
What introduced the intelligence quotient?
stanford-binet test
What do modern deviation scores indicate?
where people fall in the normal distribution for there age
Are IQ tests valid for measuring academic/verbal intelligence?
yes but not social or practical intelligence
Are IQ tests used in non western cultures?
not really
What is sternberg’s theory of intelligence?
three facets, analytic, creative, and practical
What is gardner’s theory of intelligence?
8 facets, linguistic, logical-math, musical, spatial, bodily/kin, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic
What does intellectual disability refer to?
mental activity below 70 accompanied by deficits in adaptive skills, originating behaviour before 18
What are the levels of intellectual disability? What is majority?
mild, moderate, severe, profound
mild
What is intellectual disability usually caused by?
genetic/biological cause, unfavourable environment factors
What is the drudge theory?
extraordinary acheivement depends on extensive training and monumental effort
What does savant mean?
refers to individuals who typically have below average IQ but are remarkable in very specific areas
What do twin studies show? What does this suggest?
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
What do adoption studies show?
adopted children resemble their biological parents in intelligence
What is a heritability ratio?
estimate of proportion of trait variability in a population that is determined by genetic varaiton
What do studies of environment enrichment and deprivation show?
childrens IQ changes in response to altered circumstances
What is the flynn affect?
performance on IQ tests have increased over the years
What is the reaction range model?
genetics sets limits to intelligence and environment determines where in that limit a person falls
What is reliability?
Refers to measurement consistency of a test
What is a child’s mental age?
The age that lines up with the displayed mental ability of a child
What is an intelligence quotient?
IQ found by dividing child’s mental age by actual age and multiply that by 100
What is factor analysis?
Correlations among variables are analyzed to indenting closely related clusters of variables
What is fluid intelligence? What is crystallized intelligence?
Reasoning ability, mental capacity and speed of information processing
Ability to apply acquired knowledge and skills to oslve problems
What is convergent versus divergent thinking?
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
What is reification?
Occurs when a hypothetical abstract concept is given a name and treated as a concrete tangible object
What does appealing to ignorance mean?
Using a lack of information to support your argument
What is -+3 on normal curve?
Intellectually disabled or gifted both rare
What is the general factor theory of intelligence?
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
What predicts work performance better than IQ
EQ
