INTELLIGENCE

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INTELLIGENCE

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is the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively and to deal with adaptive environment

Question 2

2 Major approach to study Intelligence

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1) psychometric approach

2) Cognitive process approach

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1) psychometric approach

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Attempts to map the structure of intellect and to discover the kinds of mental competencies that underlie test performance

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2) Cognitive process approach

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studies the specific thought process that underlie these mental competences

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Crystallised Intelligence

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is the ability to apply previously acquired knowledge to current problem.
*long -term memory, contributes strongly to Crystallised intelligence whereas FLUID INTELLIGENCE is particularly dependant on efficient working memory

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FLUID INTELLIGENCE

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ABILITY TO DEAL WITH NOVEL PROBLEM- solving situations for which personal experiences does not provide a solution

*FLUID INTELLIGENCE is particularly dependant on efficient working memory

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ALFRED BINET

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was interested in solving a practical problem rather than supporting a theory, unlike FRANCIS GALTON

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wHICH part of our memory system is particularly involved with FLUID INTELLIGENCE

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WORKING MEMORY

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Cognitive process theories:

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Explore the specific info processing and cognitive process that underlie intellectual ability.

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Gardener’s multiple intelligences (8)

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1) Linguistic intell: ability to use language as writers do
2) logical mathematical intell:
3) Musical intell: perceive pitch and rhythm, produce mus
4) visuospatial intell: spacial problems - architecture
5) bodily- knethetic intell: control body movements
6) intrapersonal: ability to understand oneself
7) interpersonal intelli: understand an relate to others
8) naturalistic intelli: understand phenomenon in the natural word

Question 11

cognitive theories of intelligence differ from psychometric approaches in that?

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cognitive theories focus on why people differ from one another in intelligence

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Emotional intelligence

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involves the abilities to read others emotions accurately, to respond to them appropriately, to motivate oneself, to be aware of one’s own emotions to regulate and control ones’s own emotional responses

* according to Mayer and Salovery it includes:
1 managing emotions
2 perceiving Emotions 
3 Using emotions to facilitate thought 
4 Understanding Emotions

Question 13

Achievement test

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designed to find out how much they have learned so far in their lives

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Aptitudes test:

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containing novepuzzleilike problems that presumably go beyond prior learning and are throughy to measure applicant’s POTENTIAL FOR FUTURE LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE

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Psychological test

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is a method for measuring individuals differences related to some psychological concept, or constructs, based on a sample of relevant behaviour in a scientifically designed and controlled situation

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3 MESSUREMENTS psychologists nee to analysed

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1) validity: how well a test actually measures what it is designed to measure
2) reliability: consistency of measurement
3) standardisation

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Wechsler believed that intelligence

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should be measures as a group of distinct but related verbal and non-verbal abilitie s

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Heridity and environnent

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GENES AND ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE INTELLIGENCE, BUT THEY RARELLY OPERATE INDEPENDENTLY OF ONE ANOTHER

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outcome bias

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is the extent to which a test underestimates a person’s true intellectual ability

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Predictive bias

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Occurs if the test successfully predicts criterion measures , such as school or job performance, for some groups but not for others

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assumptions Binet made developing his intelligence test

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• the rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person an is fait y constant over time
• mental abilities develop with age

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FACTOR ANALYSIS

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Reduces a large number of measures to a smaller number of cluster, or factors, with each cluster containing variables that correlate highly with one another but less highly with variable in other clusters