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compared black and white children adopted into similar home environments
IQ’s averaged between the adopted and biological parents
Impact: POWER OF NURTURE

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Scarr and Weinberg’s study on race and IQ

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genetic basis for IQ
certain groups can never achieve certain levels of intelligence
Proof: failure of government programs to raise scores in underprivileged areas
Impact: POWER OF NATURE and Stimulates a new wave of studies on race and IQ

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Arthur Jenson’s claims on race and IQ

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Not purely genetic, but a combination of nature(biological parents, genetics ) and nurture(home environments)
Greater variation in IQ scores exists within each ethnic group than between them, finding only 1 standard deviation between the scores of white and black people

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difference between IQ scores of African Americans and Caucasian Americans

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98% of recall
total recall of 11,000 books
every zip-code in the US
studied by NASA

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Kim Peek

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individuals who have a remarkable talent even though they are mentally slow in other domains

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savant syndrome

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designed to assess a test taker’s knowledge in a certain academic area

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achievement test

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tests designed to evaluate a person’s ability to learn a skill or subject

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aptitude test

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the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems

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artificial intelligence

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each item is representative of the larger body of knowledge about the subject that the test covers

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content validity

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knowledge acquired(facts, memorized things, semantic)(remains stable or increases with age)

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crystallized intelligence

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a term used to determine whether or not two or more forms of tests that are designed to measure some aspect of mentality are truly equivalent to one another

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equivalent form

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a set of mental and physical disorders that can include mental retardation, brain dysfunction, physical abnormalities, learning disabilities, and psychological disorders as a result of exposure to alcohol before birth

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fetal alcohol syndrome

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reasoning and abstract memory, to do things(decreases with age)

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fluid intelligence

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the widespread improvement in intelligence test performance during the past century

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Flynn effect

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IQ of 135+

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giftedness

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a measure of how well differences in people’s genes account for differences in their traits

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heritability

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water in the brian

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hydrocephaly

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the ability to derive information, learn from experience, adapt to the environment, understand, and correctly utilize thought and reason

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intelligence

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a measure of a person’s reasoning ability or how well someone can use information and logic to answer questions or make predictions

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intelligence quotient (IQ)

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human beings have different ways in which they process data, each being independent( musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalistic)

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multiple intelligence

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a test accurately measures the performance of the participant against a specific learning goal

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predictive validity

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a measure of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean

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standard deviation

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defining uniform testing procedures and scoring guidelines

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standardization

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France commissioned them to study the learning potential of students to identify slow learners
mental age- a measure of intelligence performance( if a 10-year-old performs at an 8-year-old-level they need additional support at school

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Alfred Binet

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eugenics- the study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding
influenced heavily by Charles Darwin’s work: On the Origin of Species
believed that people’s intelligence is purely genetic

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Francis Galton

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human beings have different ways in which they process data, each being independent( musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalistic)

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Howard Gardner

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believed in a genetic basis for IQ
certain groups can never achieve the same level of intelligence
Proof: failure of government programs to raise scores in underprivileged areas(government programs usually fail)
Impact: Power of NATURE/ Stimulates new wave of studies on race and IQ

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Arthur Jensen

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Triarchic Theory: Analytical Intelligence(academic problem solving and computation), Practical Intelligence(Street smarts and common sense), Creative Intelligence(Imaginative and innovative problem solving)

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Robert Sternberg

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the main critic of spearman
broke intelligence into 7 clusters of primary mental abilities (word fluency, spatial ability, perceptual speed, memory, verbal comprehension, inductive reasoning, numerical ability)

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L.L. Thurston

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Creator of the WISC-IV(verbal IQ and Performance IQ{6-16}) and the WAIS-IV( seperate scores for verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory, processing speed, and overall intelligence {16-adulthood})

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David Wechsler

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Will the test yield the SAME results overtime?

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Reliability

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Does the test measure what it claims to measure?

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Validity

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the learning potential of students to identify slow learners and whether or not they need additional support at school

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Alfred Binet’s initial intelligence tests were designed to measure

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Calculation of an intelligence score

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mental age/ chronological age X 100= IQ

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problem with Stanford-Binet’s intelligence quotient (IQ)

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by the age of 16 and above, mental age scores usually level off

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the bell-shaped curve that describes a distribution
68% or more scores fall within 1 SD of the mean

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normal curve

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mean and SD for most IQ tests

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mean: 100
SD: 15

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2-adulthood/ 4 key areas (verbal reasoning, abstract reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and short-term memory)

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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale Test

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6-16/ verbal IQ and performance IQ

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WISC

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16- adulthood/ separate scores( verbal, comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory, processing speed, and an overall intelligence)

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WAIS

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infants and toddlers/ DQ(developmental quotient) instead of IQ, useful in spotting developmental delays

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Bayley Scales of Infant Development

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people’s intelligence is purely genetic

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Francis Galton

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general intelligence that underlies all intellectual domains

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Charles Spearman’s ‘g factor’

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opposed Spearman’s argument of general intelligence, claiming that there were several specific mental abilities that determined one’s intelligence

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L.L. Thurstone’s argument against Spearman’s theory

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ability to analyze problems and find correct answers (most IQ tests)

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Robert Sternberg Analytical Intelligence

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ability to people develop new ideas and create new concepts (Picasso’s cubism)

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Robert Sternberg Creative Intelligence

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ability to cope w/ people and events in their environment (street smarts)

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Robert Sternberg Practical Intelligence

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noticed a problem with the original formula
gifted students in California
developed the Standford-Binet intelligence quotient

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results from Lewis Terman’s longitudinal study

49
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130-135+

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IQ score accepted by American school districts for identifying gifted students

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enzyme deficiency and mutation on the 12th chromosome

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Phenylketonuria

51
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more likely in males/ mutation in the FMR-1 gene

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Fragile X syndrome

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extra 21st chromosome

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Down syndrome

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Onset prior to 18
IQ below 70

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intellectual disabilities

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changed “mental retardation” to “intellectual disability” in US federal law

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Rosa’s Law

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children raised in a high-quality environment should score near the top of their POTENTIAL IQ range

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Reaction Range Model

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a measure of how well differences in people’s genes account for differences in their traits

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heritability

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human beings have different ways in which they process data, each being independent( musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalistic)

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Howard Gardner’s ‘multiple intelligence’

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