Intelligence And Testing Pt. 1 Measuring "intelligence" Flashcards
Intelligence tests
Tests for assessing a person’s mental abilities and comparing them with the abilities of other people, by means of numerical scores
Alfred Binet
A french psychologist, is most often considered to be the pioneer of the intelligence testing movements
pioneer of the intelligence testing movements
Alfred Binet
What was Binet’s purpose for developing his tests?
Indenting French school children who had special needs
Binet looked to identify a child’s
Mental age
Mental age
Chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
A child who does as well as the average 8 year old is said to have a mental age of
8
Binet did not believe his test measured
Inborn intelligence
Lewis Terman
An American psychologist at Stanford, adapted Binet’s test in an attempt to measure what he thought was inherited intelligence
Stanford Binet
Refers to the widely used revision of Binet’s original intelligence test
Lewis Terman represents
The dangers of testing
Intelligence Quotient aka
IQ
IQ
Defined originally the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100
IQ equation
IQ= ma/ca*100
IQ: on contemporary tests it is the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of
100
IQ tests are not valid for
People who get older
Intelligence is often defined as
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
Intelligence is not a “thing” it is an abstract concept, on IQ it is simply a
Score on intelligence
To measure general ability within specific mental abilities a statistical method is used called
Factor analysis
Factor analysis is used to identify
Clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to indenting different dimensions of performance that underlie one’s total.
Factor analysis example
People who do well on vocabulary items also usually do well on paragraph comprehension.. which are both related to the verbal intelligence factor
General intelligence (g)
Spearman’s belief that there was a factor that underlined specific mental abilities and was therefore measured by every talk on an intelligence test
Specific intelligences tended to be_________ correlated
Positively
Specific intelligences tended to be positively correlated example
People with highest math scores also scored above average on other factors
General intelligence by
Spearman
Savant syndrome
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has exceptional specific skill
How does Savant Syndrome relate to G factor?
It goes against
Autism is _____ than savant syndrome
Different
Autism
A mysterious development brain disorder which impacts SOCIAL INTERACTION and COMMUNICATION with others
Many autistics also engage in
Repetitive and compulsive behaviors
Multiple intelligence person
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence is opposite of
Spearman
Multiple intelligence: from a biological point of view, Gardner has noted that
Brain damage often may dismiss some abilities but not others
Gardner argues humans do on have an intelligence but instead
Multiple intelligences which are relatively independent of the others
Gardner’s multiple intelligences are
Verbal linguistic, logical mathematical, visual spatial, body kinesthesis, auditory musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, existential
Existential
Philosophical intelligence
Intrapersonal
Knowledge of self
Interpersonal
Social intelligence
Out of the 8 multiple intelligences, what do traditional IQ tests measure?
Verbal linguistic, logical mathematical, visual spatial
Successful intelligence person
Robert Sternberg
Successful intelligence: Sternberg looked to overcome the fact that although IQ tests predicted school tests relatively well,
They did less well in predicting vocational success
3 Aspects of Intelligence AKA
Triarchic view of intelligence
3 aspects of intelligence
Analytic intelligence
Creative intelligence
Practical intelligence
Analytical intelligence
Academic problem solving
Creative intelligence
Reacting to new situations and creating new ideas
Practical intelligence
Often required for everyday tasks, common sense
Social intelligence
The know-how involved in comprehending social situations and managing oneself successfully
Emotional intelligence
Ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions
Critical part of social intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Females are better in social intelligence or emotional intelligence?
Both ;)
______ correlation between head size and intelligence score
0.15
____ correlation between brain size and intelligence
0.44
What all effect the size of your brain?
Nature and nurture
Einstein’s brain was 15% larger in
Parietal lobe’s lower region.. center for mathematical processing and spatial information
But smaller in some regions
Brain glucose consumption
High performances on tasks consume LESS glucose when performing cognitive tasks
Brain glucose consumption: high IQ means brain works
More efficiently
Perceptual speed
People who can perceive the stimulus very quickly tend to score somewhat higher on intelligence tests
Aptitude tests
Designed to predict a person’s future performance
Aptitude tests example
SATs and GREs
Achievement test
A test designed to assess what a person has learned
Achievement test example
Midterm psych exam, cp 3 history test
Wechsler Adult intelligence scare (WAIS)
Most widely used intelligence test
Subtests of WAIS
Verbal , performance (nonverbal), also WISC (Wechsler Intelligence test for children)
Full form of WISC
Wechsler Intelligence test for children
WAIS verbal vs performance examples
V: general info, arithmetic reasoning, comprehension, similarities
P: Picture completion, picture arrangement, block design, object assembly
