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Intelligence Flashcards

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Flexibility is

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Many different processes to get a particular job done

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Parsimony is the way we

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Take economically short-cuts

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Learning by mistakes is where

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Learning from when things go wrong as well as when they go right

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Main criticisms of iq testing is

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Very culture biased

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Formal intelligence definition

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the capacity to learn from experience, using meta cognitive processes to enhance learning and the ability to adapt to the surrounding environment, which may require different adaptations within dif social and cultural contexts.

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Meta cognitive processes means

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Thinking about your own thinking. Conscious strategies you use to guide you own thinking.

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Early intelligence testing focused on

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Psychophysical abilities

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Psychophysical abilities are:

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Just noticeable differences. Differential threshold, sensory acuity, physical strength, motor coordination

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Early intelligence was found to be based on your

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Physical, psychological and behavioural closely tied up together

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10
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Cornflakes were invented to

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Cure masturbation in teenagers

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11
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Binet developed the first traditional

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Iq test (in French schools)

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Intelligent behaviour involved 3 processes

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Direction, adaptation, criticism

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Binets direction

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Knowing what has to be done and how to do it

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Binets adaptation

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Customising a strategy for performing a task and monitoring that strategy while implementing it

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Binets criticism

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Ability to critique your own thoughts and actions

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16
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IQ tests help us to calculate your

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Mental age -age at which you’re performing

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17
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IQ is the quotient of your

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Mental age and chronological age

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18
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IQ calculated by

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Mental age divided by chronological age x 100

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19
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IQ are now calculated using

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Standardised norms or population norms

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How do we get IQ norms?

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Administering tests to 1000’s of the pop

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21
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We compare an individual performance to

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A standard distribution of scores

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22
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Categories in Stanford Binet IQ test

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Verbal reasoning
Quantitative reasoning
Abstract reasoning
Short-term memory

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23
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Three themes that dominate human cognition

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Flexibility
Parsimony
Learning by mistakes

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Weshler IQ test took over the

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Stanford and Binet IQ test in popularity

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25
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Weschler developed this IQ test (Weschler adult intelligence scale) to

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Test/screen army recruits

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Each Weschler IQ test yields how many broad scores?

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3: verbal, performance and overall score

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Weschler believed that IQ involved

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Much more than performance on his tests

28
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Structure of intelligence is referred to as a

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Factor analytic approach

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In early days structure of intelligence was measured using

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Factor analysis

30
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Spearman proposed the single general factor called

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Spearmans g

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Underlying spearmans g is the theory that underlying all tests on mental ability is

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A general single factor - single type of mental ability

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Is there a single cognitive ability that dictates all performance on mental tasks - comes from

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Spearmans g

33
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Thurston expanded on spearmans g and added …….more factors

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34
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What are thurstons first 4 primary mental abilities

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Verbal comprehension
Verbal fluency
Inductive reasoning
Spatial visualisation

35
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What the the final 3 of thurstons primary mental abilities

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Number
Memory
Perceptual speed

36
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Thurston believed ones overall intellectual profile was based on

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The seven primary mental abilities

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Thurstons 7 primary mental abilities are

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Independent of each other combine to create each persons individual intellectual profile

38
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Guildfords model of intelligence rejected due to

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It being too complex with over 150 factors!!!

39
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Meta analysis is a

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Statistical technique - (a level above analysis) take existing data collapse them and re-analyse them

40
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By meta analysis Carroll identified

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3 stratas

41
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Carrolls 3 stratum are

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  1. Narrow specific abilities (spelling)
  2. General abilities
  3. Single general intelligence (ie spearmans g)
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Good thing about carrolls strartum

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Integrates a large body of literature

43
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Gardners multiple intelligences proses that

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Intelligence is not a single unitary construct. 7 diff intelligences

44
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Gardner devised 7 intelligences. They are.

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Linguistic 
Logical-mathematical
Spatial
Musical
Bodily kinesthetic
Intrapersonal 
Interpersonal
45
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Gardener believes you can’t improve one intelligence by

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Teaching them another. Ie improve maths by teaching them music

46
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Gardner believes that each intelligences needs to be

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Taught individually

47
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Sternberg’s triachic intelligence theory is that

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Intelligence consists of 3 abilities

48
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Sternberg’s 3 intelligence abilities

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Analytical thinking
Creative thinking
Practical thinking

49
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Sternberg’s creative thinking is also called

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Experiential intelligence

50
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Sternberg’s intelligence refers to our ability

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To solve problems that require us to think about it and it’s elements in a new way. Inventing, designing, creating

51
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Analytical thinking refers to

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Mathematical problems, statistics,

52
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Practical thinking is also referred to as

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Contextual intelligence

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Practical thinking

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Applying knowledge to everyday situations

54
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Componential intelligence is defined as

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Ability to think abstractly, process info effectively

55
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Experiential intelligence is defined as

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Ability to formulate new ideas, combine seemingly unrelated facts/info

56
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Contextual intelligence is defined as

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Ability to adapt to changing environment conditions

57
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Identical twins raised apart still have

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High correlation between IQ scores!

58
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Which influences IQ more? Genetics or environment

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They both play a role. However genetics stronger

59
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Intelligence results from a complex interaction of

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Genetics, physical health, range of socio/cultural variables

60
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Three things impacting on intelligence

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Genetics
Health
Socioeconomic status

61
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Two main theoretical categories of emotional intelligence

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Mayer & salovery: focus on emotions only

Goleman & bar-on: include other factors (personality - resilience, agreeableness, stability)

62
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Goleman proposes 5 components of emotional intelligence:

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Knowing our own emotions
Managing our own emotions
Motivating ourselves
Recognising others emotions 
Handling relationships: interpersonal intelligence
63
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Tests of emotional intelligence are only measured by

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Self-report

64
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Two broad schools of emotional measurement

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Self report scales

Msceite

65
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Msceit tests are the

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Best tests available to test emotional intelligence

66
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Msceit tests were formed by

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Tests of 1000s of population and by experts in the area to come up with performance based scores

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