Intelligence Part 1 Flashcards
Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new solutions
Intelligence
Measure people’s mental aptitudes and compare them to others’ through numerical scores
Intelligence Test
Skilled mathematicians who statistically analyzed results and focused on measuring/assessing several traits
Psychometrics Psychologist
Genetic Bases
Hertiablity
Promoting the reproduction of highly intelligent potential sterilization for those who have “less desirable traits”
Eugenics
Chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
Mental Age
Concepts introduced by Binet & Simon
Mental Age
Lewis Terman’s widely used revision of Binet’s original intelligence test
Stanford-Binet
Defined by originally as the ration of mental age to chronological age multiples by 100
Intelligence Quotient
Contemporarily test of intelligence assign a score of 100 to the average performance for a given age and define other scores as deviations from this average
Intelligence Quotient
Statistical procedure that identifies factors, clusters of related items, that seem to define a common ability
Factor Analysis
Psychologist have identified several clusters, including verbal intelligence, spatial ability and reasoning ability factors
Factor Analysis
Factors identified by LL Thurstone such as memory, numerical ability, word fluency, verbal comprehensions, spatial ability and perceptual speed
Primary Mental Abilites
Underlying each of more specific mental abilities identified through factor analysis
General Intelligence (G Factor)
Basic Intelligence predicts our abilities in varied academic areas
Spearman’s General Intelligence
