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What is Intelligence?

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The ability to direct one’s thinking, adapt to one’s circumstances, and learn from one’s experiences.

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Binet-Simon Scale.

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The scale consisted of thirty tasks of increasing difficulty. Estimate a child’s “mental level” by calculating the average test score of children in different age groups.

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Natural Intelligence.

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Measure a child’s aptitude for learning independent of prior educational achievement.

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What did Goddard do?

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Used this scale to justify meritocracy.

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Meritcracy.

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The more merit you have, the more you obtain in society.

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What was the Binet-Simon scale used for in the United States under Goddard?

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This scale was used to allow or disallow people to immigrate into the United States , and was used in the advancement in the eugenics movement.

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Eugenics.

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Selecting people who have a particular trait, and eliminating the others.

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Problem with race:

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  • Most people are 99.9% identical.
  • Race has no genetic or scientific basis.
  • Variation has more to do with geography than genetics.
  • Social construct.
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What did William Stern suggest in 1914?

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Mental level=mental age. You can determine normal development by examining the ratio of the child’s mental age to the child’s physical age.

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What did Lewis Terman do in 1916?

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Formalized comparison with the intelligence quotient (IQ).

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Ratio IQ.

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A statistic obtained by dividing a person’s mental age, and then multiplying the quotient by 100.

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Deviation IQ.

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A statistic obtained by dividing a person’s test score by the average test score of people in the same age group and then multiplying the quotient by 100.

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What are the most common tests for IQ?

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Stanford-Binet and WAIS.

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Benefits of Measuring IQ.

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  • Creates dorrelation between standard intelligence and academic performance.
  • Predict occupational status and income.
  • Correlation between average score and overall -economic status.
  • Job performance.
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Drawbacks of Measuring IQ.

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  • Knowledge is power.
  • Tests are culturally biased.
  • Western concept of intelligence.
  • Skills tested test intelligence.
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Factor Analysis.

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A statistical technique developed by Spearman that explains a larger number of correlation in terms of a small number of underlying factors.

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Two-Factor Theory of Intelligence.

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Spearman’s theory suggests that every task requires a combination of a general ability (which he called g) and skills that are specific to the task (which he called s).

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What did Thurstone argue in 1920?

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There is no such thing as a general ability.

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Bottom-up Approach

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Administer test, examine responses to identify independent clusters that the responses form.

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Crystallized Intelligece.

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Accuracy and amount of information available for processing.

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Fluid Intelligence.

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The ability to process information.

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Top-down Approach.

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Administer broad survet of human abilities, then identify which abilities the survey measured or failed to measure.

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Why did Sternberg criticize IQ tests?

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They are missing something. Do not provide the same intelligence that tape measures provide for height.

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Three types of intelligence for the triarchic model:

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  1. Analytical intelligence.
  2. Creative intelligence.
  3. Practical intelligence.
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Analytical Intelligence.

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The ability to identify and define problems and to find strategies for solving them. How an individual relates to the internal world.

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Creative Intelligence.

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The ability to generate solutions that other people do not. How an individual relates to the internal world and how this is used to make sense of the external world.

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Practical Intelligence.

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The ability to apply and implement these solutions that other people do not. Street smarts.

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Triangular Theory of Love.

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Intimacy: Encompasses feelings of attachent, closeness, connectedness, and bondedness.
Passion: Encompasses drives connected to both limerence and sexual attaction.
Commitment: Encompasses, in the short term, the decision to remain with another, and in the long term, plans made with that other.

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Gardner’s Research.

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Prodigies, savants, eight types of intelligence, and emotional intelligence.

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Prodigy.

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A person of normal intelligence who has an extraordinary ability.

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Savant.

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A person with low intelligence who has an extraordinary ability.

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Emotional Intelligence.

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The ability to reason about emotions to enhance reasoning.

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