Intelligence Flashcards
intelligence
The ability to learn from experiences, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
reification
The error of assigning test scores as a personality trait
EX. Daniel is intelligent because he gets good test scores.
Factor analysis
Cluster of skills related to a specific intelligence
Spearman
One intelligence (general intelligence)
Thurstone
First one to think there are different types of intelligence
Gardner
eight different intelligences
linguistic
Logical mathematical
Musical
Spatial
interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Body kinesthetic
Naturalist
Sternberg
Three types of intelligence
Analytical
Creative
Practical
emotional intelligence
Perceive/understand manage and use your emotions
Intelligence tests
IQ tests
Stanford Benet IQ test
first widely used IQ test
Alfred Binet
made the first IQ test to place kids in Paris schools
Lewis Terman
professor at Stanford studied eugenics
Eugenics
Study of selective reading
autism
Or lower on IQ test
Stereotype threat
we’re positive there are types about someone’s racial, ethnic, or gender‘s ability to do a certain way on a test 
aptitude test
Test for a future performance
EX. SAT/ACT.
David Weschler
made Weschler intelligence scale for children
WISC
Wessler intelligence scale for children
Also, have an adult version
-Tests spatial linguistic and math
What are the parts of Weschler’s test?
similarities
Vocab
Block design -putting blocks together
Letter number spacing
how to calculate IQ
mental age/actual age X 100
percentages on a bell curve
0.1%, 2%, 13.5%, 34%, 34%, 13.5%, 2%, 0.1%
achievement test
Tests what you have learned
Francis Galton
And intelligence believe nature was more important than nurture
Flynn effect
Younger generation scoring better so they have to change the test to fit the current bell curve
correlational coefficient
A mathematical number that shows a relationship between them
EX. Brain size and intelligent.
how can tests be culturally biased
The test can talk about language or topics that some cultures don’t know about
reciprocal determinism
Natural inclination influences environment
EX. Have a love for music so you hang around musicians, which leave you to like music even more
means of central tendency
Mean, median and mode
Mode
Most occurring number
Skewed distribution
not normal bell curve
EX. It caused by outliers.
Content validity
The continent on a test is testing what it supposed to
Validity
How accurate a test test
Tracking
sorting based on performance on test
EX. Casey math program.
