Intelligence

Question 1

intelligence

Answer 1

• ability to solve mental problems that are related to school, work and real-life settings

Question 2

Intelligence testing

Answer 2

• 1904 french ministry commissiond Alfred binet to develop a method idenfitying children with leaning difficutlites

Question 3

Why test personality

Answer 3

it pedicts behaviour and intelligence predicts academic achievement

Question 4

Binet’s Response

Answer 4

• created a standarised test for
  mental age
• goal= designs test to predict differences in school perfomance

Question 5

Stanford-binet

Answer 5

• Scores now reprsented as iq rather than mental age
  (mental age/chronological age)x100

Question 6

Charles spearman (1863-1945)

Answer 6

• ability tests are:
  1. intercorrelated
  2. common variance can be represented in g

Question 7

g tests/

Answer 7

1. reasoning,
2. spatial ability,
3. memory,
   4.processing speed
4. vocablary

Question 8

Louis Thurstone (1863-1945)

Answer 8

• questioned ‘g’
• stated: even with underlying intelligence factors there are 7 abilities

Question 9

The 7 primary abilities

Answer 9

1. Verbal comprehension
2. word fluency
3. number fluency
4. spatial visualisaton
5. associative memory
6. perceptual speed
7. reasoning

Question 10

FLUID INTELLIGENCE

Answer 10

• ability to perform well on non-verbal tasks, elememt of cogntve performance

Question 11

CRYSTALLIED INTELLIGENCE

Answer 11

• ability to do well onn verbal tasks which are influenced by prvious knowledge

Question 12

G is associated with:

Answer 12

• physical fitness
• low sugar diet
• longevity
• alcoholism
  (gottfredson,2004)