INTELLIGENCE Flashcards
Intelligence is the general mental ability to:
- acquire knowledge
- think and reason effectively
- deal adaptively with the environment
Sir Francis Galton- Hereditary Genius (1869)
- intelligence is hereditary
- first to quantify intelligence
- family trees
- nervous system: high pitched sounds/ colour perception
- sensory processes are not mental processes
- environment and life opportunities?
Alfred Binet- Concept of mental age (1904)
- commissioned by Ministry of Education
- standardised interview based test
*does not allow for comparison
William Stern- IQ (1912)
IQ= mental age/chronological age x 100
*less useful for adults
Modern IQ Testing
- standardisation (M=100, SD=15)
- normal distribution
- 130+ genius
- <70 learning disability (mild, moderate, severe and profound)
Stanford Binet
-Lewis Terman- mid 1920s
- too reliant on verbal skills
- single IQ score doesn’t give understanding
- revised version scores 5 different cognitive abilities
Wechsler Scale (WAIS/WISC)
-WAIS-IV (2008) is the latest version
-4 index scales
-verbal comprehension index
-working memory index
-perceptual reasoning index
-processing speed index
=full scale IQ (FSIQ)
Wechsler Scale (WAIS/WISC)-verbal comprehension index
- similarities
- vocab
- information
- comprehension
Wechsler Scale (WAIS/WISC)- working memory index
- digit span
- arithmetic
- letter-number sequencing
Wechsler Scale (WAIS/WISC)- perceptual reasoning index
- block design
- matrix reasoning
- visual puzzles
- figure weighs
- picture completion
Wechsler Scale (WAIS/WISC)-processing speed index
- symbol search
- coding
- cancellation
Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPM) 1938
*WAIS was criticised for being reliant on skills developed in Western culture
- assesses non verbal reasoning with increasingly difficult patterns -more culturally fair
- correlated positively with traditional IQ tests
How to manage cross-cultural challenges in intelligence tests?
- create culturally specific tests
- create culturally independent reasoning problems
Two Factor Theory - Charles Spearman (1927)
g= eternal intelligence
- positive manifold
- using factor analysis
- high loading tests:RPM
s=specific intelligence
Two Factor Theory - Charles Spearman (1927)
Factor Analysis
extract underlying latent factors or components based on correlations between measured variables or items
e.g.
vocab and grammar under language
arithmetic and geometry under math