Intelligence pt 3 Use of tests

Question 1

What does intelligence predict?

Answer 1

Education - Deary et al (2007);
Duckworth et al (2011)
Job performance - Hunter and Hunter
(1984)
Health - Deary and Der (2005); Batty et
al. (2007

Question 2

What are the 4 Ps of creativity (Rhodes; 1961, 1987; Runco; 2004)?

Answer 2

Person: personal characteristics
Process: thought, actions, behaviours
Press: pressures on the creative process Product: outcomes of the creative
process

Question 3

What was the three-ring definition of giftedness (Renzulli (1978), Renzulli and Reis (1997))?

Answer 3

Venn diagram of above average ability, task commitment and creativity with most gifted behaviours falling in the centra overlap

Question 4

What was Tannenbaum’s (1986) psychosocial definition of giftedness?

Answer 4

the ability to produce rather than consume information

Question 5

What was Feldman’s developmentalist view of giftedness (1986)?

Answer 5

giftedness in adulthood is a ‘coincidence of forces’, gifted children may not emerge as gifted adults

Question 6

What is the Flynn effect?

Answer 6

IQ is going up over time

Question 7

What were Neisser’s potential explanations of the Flynn effect (1998)?

Answer 7

Too fast to be genetic so must be environmental - 5 mechanisms:
schooling, test-taking sophistication, child rearing practices, visual and technical environment, nutrition