Intelligence Flashcards
Intelligence is measured by
IQ tests : verbal iq, performance iq, full scale iq
Is intelligence one thing or many and why
One thing
Many iq test results strongly correlate suggesting they’re the same underlying intelligence
Cognition and aging
Cognition declines with age
Healthy decline with aging is called
Normative non pathological decline
Unhealthy decline with age is called
Pathological decline like dementia that stops people living independently
What’s a genetic statistic for age of rate of change
24% of differences in rate of change attribute to genetic differences
Genetic reason intelligence is linked to achievement
Same genes for intelligence as good education and income
What are criminals with a high iq like
Less likely to commit crime against people and more likely to do it against property
What are the two types of empathy
Cognitive - understanding another’s emotional state
Affective - share another’s emotional state
What are the three ways of looking at why people offend
1 - low intelligence leads to low empathy and offending
2 - low intelligence leads to low empathy with leads to offending
3- deficits in functioning leads to low intelligence, offending, and low empathy
What is the link between parental social class and liberal views
Indirect contribution as it affects child’s education which affects their intelligence which contributes to liberal views
3 stratum theory of intelligence by
John Carroll 3rd level - general cognitive ability g 2nd level - broad domains of group functioning (group factors) 1st level - test-specific variation Goes narrow - broad - general
Vpr model
Philip Vernon
General intelligence is made up of Verbal , Perceptual (spatial, content memory) and image Rotation
