Intelligence Flashcards

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What term is given to an inferred process that humans use to explain the different degrees of adaptive success in people’s behavior

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Intelligence

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What type of persons specialize in measuring psychological characteristics for intelligence

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Psychometricians

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What are the different theories of intelligence

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Spearman’s Two Factor Theory
Thurstone’s Seven Factor Theory
Cattell’s Theory
Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence
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What theorist theorized that a general intelligence factor (g) underlies other, more specific aspects of intelligence

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Charles Spearman

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True or false, according to Spearman there is dominant S factor, and lesser ability g factor

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False, It is the other way around

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What theorist theorised that Intelligence is a cluster of 7 primary abilities. Each independent from the other.

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Louis L. Thurstone

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What the 7 theories of intelligence according to Louis L. Thurstone

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Verbal comprehension, 
verbal fluency, 
numerical ability, 
spatial visualization, 
inductive reasoning, 
perceptual speed, 
memory, 
deductive reasoning and problem solving ability.
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According to Spearman, what factor was just an overall average score of these independent abilities

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g factor

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9
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What were the two types of intelligence according to Cattel

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Fluid and Crystallized

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10
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What type of intelligence involves The ability to think on the spot and solve novel problems
The ability to perceive relationships
The ability to gain new types of knowledge

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Fluid

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What type of intelligence involves Factual knowledge about the world
The skills already learned and practiced

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Cystallized

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What type of intelligence involves Arithmetic facts

Knowledge of the meaning of words, State capitals

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Crystallized

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13
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What type of intellingence involves Solving a new calculus problem

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Fluid

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14
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What type of intelligence involves Designing a road trip from your home town to a Tulsa Oklahoma

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Fluid

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What type of intelligence involves Calculating sales tax

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Crystallized

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16
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What type of intelligence involves Writing a novel

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Crystallized

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17
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True or false, Crystallized intelligence increases as age increases

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True

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18
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True or False, reaches its peak after age 20, and remains steady before

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False, it reaches it peak after age 20, and remains steady throughout life

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What are Gardner’s 9 types of intelligence

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Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical 
Spatial 
Musical
Bodily- Kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalistic
Existential
20
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What type of intelligence involves sensitivity to the meanings and sounds of words, mastery of syntax, appreciation of the ways language can be used

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Linguistics

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What type of intelligence involves Understanding of objects and symbols and of actions that be performed on them and of the relations between these actions, ability to identify problems and seek explanations

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Logical- Mathematical

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What type of intelligence involves capacity to perceive the visual world accurately, to perform transformations upon perceptions and to re-create aspects of visual experience in the absence of physical stimuli

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Spatial

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What type of intelligence involves Sensitivity to individual tones and phrases of music, an understanding of ways to combine tones and phrases into larger musical rhythms and structures, awareness of emotional aspects of music

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Musical

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What type of intelligence involves Use of one’s body in highly skilled ways for expressive or goal-directed purposes, capacity to handle objects skillfully

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Bodily Kinesthetic

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What type of intelligence involves the Ability to notice and make distinctions among the moods, temperaments, motivations, and intentions of other people and potentially to act on this knowledge

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Interpersonal

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What type of intelligence involves access to one’s own feelings, ability to draw on one’s emotions to guide and understand one’s behavior, recognition of personal strengths and weaknesses

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Intrapersonal

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What type of intelligence involves sensitivity and understanding of plants, animals, and other aspects of nature

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Naturalistic

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What type of intelligence involves sensitivity to issues related to the meaning of life, death, and other aspects of the human condition

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Existential

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What type of intelligence involves the ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions

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Emotional

30
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What theory is the Author of a Triarchic theory of multiple intelligences consisting of of 3 mental abilities

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Robert Sternberg

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What are Sternberg’s types of intelligence

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Analytic, Practical

Creative

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What type of Sternberg intelligence involves : Trying to solve familiar problems by using strategies that manipulate the elements of a problem or the relationship among the elements (e.g., comparing, analyzing)

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Analytical

33
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What type of Sternberg intelligence involves : Trying to solve new kinds of problems that require us to think about the problem and its elements in a new way (e.g., inventing, designing)

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Experimental

34
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What type of Sternberg intelligence involves : Trying to solve problems that apply what we know to everyday contexts (e.g., applying, using)

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Contextual/Practical

35
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What is involved in the 1st battery of test according to Francis Galton

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Sensory and motor measures
Height, weight, hand length, head breadth, arm span, length of middle finger, strength of hand squeeze, vital capacity of lungs, highest audible tone, reaction time

36
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What kind of Intelligence test involves:
Follows a moving object with the eyes.
Recognizes the difference between a square of chocolate and a square of wood.
Finds and eats a square of chocolate wrapped in paper.
Points to familiar named objects, e.g., “Show me the cup.”
Names objects in pictures, e.g., “What is this?”
Repeats three spoken digits.
Defines common words by function.
Repeats a sentence of 15 words.
Tells how two common objects are different, e.g., “paper and cardboard.”
15. Responds to 25 abstract (comprehension) questions, e.g., “When a person has offended you, and comes to offer his apologies, what should you do?”
Defines abstract words by designating the difference between, e.g., “boredom and weariness.”

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The 1905 Binet-Simon Scale

37
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How do you calculate an IQ test

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the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100

38
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What are the 4 main areas of an IQ test

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verbal reasoning abstract/visual reasoning quantitative reasoning
short term memory

39
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Name WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALES 4 parts

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Verbal comprehension
Perceptual reasoning
Working memory
Processing speed

40
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individuals who are average will generally have an IQ of

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100

41
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Roughly two-thirds of all individuals will have an IQ score between

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85-115

42
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Approximately 95% will have scores between

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70 and 130

43
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What are factors that influence intelligence

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The Child’s Influence (Nature)
The Immediate Environment’s Influence (Nurture)
The Society’s Influence

44
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True or False, Girls Tend to be stronger in verbal fluency, in writing, in perceptual speed (starting as early as the toddler years)

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True

45
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True or False, Boys Tend to be stronger in visual-spatial processing, in science, and in mathematical problem solving (starting as early as age

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True