Intelligence Exam 3

Question 1

Intelligence

Answer 1

the mental potential to learn from experience, solve problems and to use your knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Question 2

Measuring intelligence:

Answer 2

a method for assessing an individuals mental aptitudes and comparing that with those of others, using numerical scores.

Question 3

Binet’s scoring – mental age

Answer 3

A measure of intelligence test performance by Binet. Level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age. a child who does well as an average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8.

Question 4

B. Modern intelligence tests (WAIS) & scoring

Answer 4

Widely used individual intelligence test. Helps identify those who could benefit from special education opportunities for improvement

Question 5

Deviation IQ:

Answer 5

68% of people score within h15 point of 100.

95% of all people fall within 30 points of 100.

Question 6

Validity of intelligence testing

Answer 6

intelligence correlate to socially helpful things. They tend to do better at school, higher performance, tend to be happier and live longer.

Question 7

General (g) intelligence factor – Spearman

Answer 7

Spearmen: suggested that intelligence can be represented well enough with one simple factor which is general intelligence factor.

Question 8

General intelligence factor:

Answer 8

all specific intelligences have a general common factor. If you play a certain sport, you are more inclined to do more than one. If yore good at this this, you’re going to tend to be better at this too.

Question 9

B. Multiple intelligences – ex: Sternberg’s triarchic,

Answer 9

Sternberg thinks there’s three types of intelligences: analytic, creative, and practical.

Question 10

Analytical

Answer 10

identifying strategies and coming up with a strategy to define them. School smart

Question 11

Creative

Answer 11

People who can come up with novel solution that most people don’t see. Poets, musicians, sculptures.

Question 12

Practical

Answer 12

: people who can implement solution in everyday world settings. Street smart.

Question 13

Emotional intelligence

Answer 13

recognizing your emotions, and people’s emotions and using those emotions into a productive way, to help you adapt to the world.

Question 14

Hierarchical models – fluid & crystallized intelligence

Answer 14

Dividing intelligence, levels of models. Sublevels can be useful too.

Question 15

Fluid intelligence:

Answer 15

To think quickly about a new problem. Applying your brain to a new situation that you have never seen before.

Question 16

Crystallized Intelligence:

Answer 16

Amount of knowledge you have already picked up, the ability to apply that knowledge that you have accumulated. Seeing how it fits into a new situation.