Intelligence

Question 1

• Developed first intelligence test
• Age graded items produced mental
  age
• Intelligence is a general mental
  ability
• 1908 – Binet-Simon Test was revised

Answer 1

Binet’s Singular Component Approach

Question 2

● Using factor analysis, not a single trait
- Early multicomponent theories
- Charles Spearman; g = general mental factor
s = special ability
- Louis Thurstone; 7 Primary Mental Abilities
(PMA)

Answer 2

Multicomponent View of Intelligence

Question 3

● Later multicomponent theories
- J.P.Guilford; 180 basic mental abilities
- Structure-of-Intellect model
- Content (5), Operations (6), Products (6)

Answer 3

Multicomponent View of Intelligence

Question 4

• Fluid Intelligence (abstract problems)
• Crystallized Intelligence (acquired knowledge)

Answer 4

Raymond Cattell and John Horn

Question 5

; Three-stratum-theory
- Intelligence as consisting of three strata or levels. .
- g at the top of the hierarchy
- Eight broad abilities at second level
- Narrow third-stratum abilities (s-factor to Spearman)

Answer 5

● John Carroll

Question 6

● Nine distinctive kinds of
Intelligence
- 9th intelligence is currently
speculative
- linked to a specific area of the
brain
- follows a different
developmental course

Answer 6

Gardner’s Theory of Multiple
Intelligence

Question 7

• Original Version (Terman)
• IQ of children 3 to 13
• Based on mental age/chronological age
• IQ = MA/CA x 100
• Revised version – still in use
• Normed on individuals age 6 – adult
• Deviation score compared with some aged
others; 100 = average

Answer 7

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale

Question 8

Intelligence Scale for Children-IV (WISC-IV)
• 6-16 years old
• Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of
Intelligence-III (WPPSI-III)
• 3-8 years old
• Both contain verbal subtests, and nonverbal
subtests

Answer 8

Wechsler Scale

Question 9

– a small # of
meaningless symbols
combined according to
agreed-on-rules to produce
an infinite # of messages.

Answer 9

LANGUAGE

Question 10

– process by which one
organism transmits info to
and influences another.

Answer 10

COMMUNICATION

Question 11

– those who study the
structure and development
of children’s language.

Answer 11

PSYCHOLINGUISTS

Question 12

• - the use of one word to express a whole
phrase or concept

Answer 12

Holophrase

Question 13

• isthe ability to acquire a word rapidly on
  the basis of minimal information.

Answer 13

• Fast Mapping

Question 14

is most commonly used to describe someone who
can speak or understand two languages, especially with some
level of fluency.

Answer 14

Bilingual

Question 15

is most commonly used to describe someone who
can speak or understand two languages, especially with some
level of fluency.

Answer 15

Bilingual