Intelligence And Testing Pt. 1 Measuring "intelligence" Flashcards

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Intelligence tests

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Tests for assessing a person’s mental abilities and comparing them with the abilities of other people, by means of numerical scores

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Alfred Binet

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A french psychologist, is most often considered to be the pioneer of the intelligence testing movements

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pioneer of the intelligence testing movements

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Alfred Binet

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What was Binet’s purpose for developing his tests?

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Indenting French school children who had special needs

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Binet looked to identify a child’s

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Mental age

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Mental age

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Chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance

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A child who does as well as the average 8 year old is said to have a mental age of

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8

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Binet did not believe his test measured

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Inborn intelligence

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Lewis Terman

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An American psychologist at Stanford, adapted Binet’s test in an attempt to measure what he thought was inherited intelligence

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Stanford Binet

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Refers to the widely used revision of Binet’s original intelligence test

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Lewis Terman represents

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The dangers of testing

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Intelligence Quotient aka

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IQ

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IQ

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Defined originally the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100

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IQ equation

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IQ= ma/ca*100

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IQ: on contemporary tests it is the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of

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100

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IQ tests are not valid for

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People who get older

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Intelligence is often defined as

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The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

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Intelligence is not a “thing” it is an abstract concept, on IQ it is simply a

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Score on intelligence

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To measure general ability within specific mental abilities a statistical method is used called

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Factor analysis

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Factor analysis is used to identify

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Clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to indenting different dimensions of performance that underlie one’s total.

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Factor analysis example

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People who do well on vocabulary items also usually do well on paragraph comprehension.. which are both related to the verbal intelligence factor

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General intelligence (g)

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Spearman’s belief that there was a factor that underlined specific mental abilities and was therefore measured by every talk on an intelligence test

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Specific intelligences tended to be_________ correlated

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Positively

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Specific intelligences tended to be positively correlated example

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People with highest math scores also scored above average on other factors

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General intelligence by

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Spearman

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Savant syndrome

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A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has exceptional specific skill

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How does Savant Syndrome relate to G factor?

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It goes against

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Autism is _____ than savant syndrome

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Different

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Autism

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A mysterious development brain disorder which impacts SOCIAL INTERACTION and COMMUNICATION with others

30
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Many autistics also engage in

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Repetitive and compulsive behaviors

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Multiple intelligence person

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Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence is opposite of

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Spearman

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Multiple intelligence: from a biological point of view, Gardner has noted that

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Brain damage often may dismiss some abilities but not others

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Gardner argues humans do on have an intelligence but instead

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Multiple intelligences which are relatively independent of the others

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Gardner’s multiple intelligences are

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Verbal linguistic, logical mathematical, visual spatial, body kinesthesis, auditory musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, existential

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Existential

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Philosophical intelligence

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Intrapersonal

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Knowledge of self

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Interpersonal

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Social intelligence

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Out of the 8 multiple intelligences, what do traditional IQ tests measure?

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Verbal linguistic, logical mathematical, visual spatial

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Successful intelligence person

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Robert Sternberg

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Successful intelligence: Sternberg looked to overcome the fact that although IQ tests predicted school tests relatively well,

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They did less well in predicting vocational success

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3 Aspects of Intelligence AKA

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Triarchic view of intelligence

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3 aspects of intelligence

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Analytic intelligence
Creative intelligence
Practical intelligence

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Analytical intelligence

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Academic problem solving

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Creative intelligence

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Reacting to new situations and creating new ideas

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Practical intelligence

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Often required for everyday tasks, common sense

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Social intelligence

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The know-how involved in comprehending social situations and managing oneself successfully

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Emotional intelligence

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Ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions

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Critical part of social intelligence

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Emotional intelligence

50
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Females are better in social intelligence or emotional intelligence?

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Both ;)

51
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______ correlation between head size and intelligence score

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0.15

52
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____ correlation between brain size and intelligence

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0.44

53
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What all effect the size of your brain?

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Nature and nurture

54
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Einstein’s brain was 15% larger in

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Parietal lobe’s lower region.. center for mathematical processing and spatial information

But smaller in some regions

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Brain glucose consumption

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High performances on tasks consume LESS glucose when performing cognitive tasks

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Brain glucose consumption: high IQ means brain works

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More efficiently

57
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Perceptual speed

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People who can perceive the stimulus very quickly tend to score somewhat higher on intelligence tests

58
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Aptitude tests

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Designed to predict a person’s future performance

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Aptitude tests example

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SATs and GREs

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Achievement test

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A test designed to assess what a person has learned

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Achievement test example

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Midterm psych exam, cp 3 history test

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Wechsler Adult intelligence scare (WAIS)

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Most widely used intelligence test

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Subtests of WAIS

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Verbal , performance (nonverbal), also WISC (Wechsler Intelligence test for children)

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Full form of WISC

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Wechsler Intelligence test for children

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WAIS verbal vs performance examples

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V: general info, arithmetic reasoning, comprehension, similarities

P: Picture completion, picture arrangement, block design, object assembly