Intelligence & Social Psych

Question 1

What is creative intelligence?

Answer 1

Inventing or imagining new solutions to problems // creative ways to open a jar

Question 2

What is analytical intelligence?

Answer 2

Academic problem solving // being asked to solve a math problem on the board (one solution)

Question 3

What is practical intelligence?

Answer 3

Street smarts & common sense // Knowing to drive on the right side of the road, how to brake, and when to go.

Question 4

What is savant syndrome?

Answer 4

Limited mental ability but has amazing specific skills // Memorizing a song after hearing it once.

Question 5

What is emotional intelligence?

Answer 5

Ability to use my senses, express, understand, and control emotions // Turning criticism into motivation

Question 6

Who was Alfred Binet? What did he do?

Question 7

What is mental age?

Answer 7

Chronological age is typical for that performance level // A 4-year-old child does well as the average 8-year-old then the child’s mental age is 8.

Question 8

What was the Standford-Binet intelligence scale?

Answer 8

(Terman) If you didn’t make the right score on the IQ test shouldn’t be allowed to produce // tests that are culturally based (first the test was on french now it’s on Americans)

Question 9

What is the intelligence Quotient (IQ)?

Answer 9

Mental Age divided by Chronological Age multiplied by 100 // (12/10)X100=120

Question 10

What does an amplitude test measure?

Answer 10

Predicts your ability to learn new skills // Placement tests or college entrance exams (think about how you got into COMP+workshop)

Question 11

What do achievement tests measure?

Answer 11

What a person has learned // Final exams is what you learned in class

Question 12

What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) measure?

Answer 12

Most used intelligence scale // 5-A-2-B = AB25

Question 13

What is reliability?

Answer 13

similar results when you retake the test (Consistency) // IQ test score on week 1 is 100, take the same test again next week and get 100

Question 14

What is validity?

Answer 14

The test measures or predicts what it’s supposed to (Accuracy) // a test of intelligence should measure intelligence not something else like memory.

Question 15

What is standardization?

Answer 15

Comparing scores to a pretested norm group

Question 16

What is a normal curve?

Answer 16

Shows the distribution of scores on many physical & psychological attributes // Intelligence

Question 17

What is intellectual disability?

Answer 17

Limited mental ability 70 and below and difficulty adapting to the demands of life.

Question 18

What is crystallized intelligence?

Answer 18

Accumulated knowledge & verbal skills. Knowledge grows really slowly over time. Tends to increase with age. // Crystals take a while to form.

Question 19

What is fluid intelligence?

Answer 19

Ability to reason quickly and abstractly decreases with age. // Think on the spot

Question 20

What are genetic influences?

Answer 20

The same genes share comparable mental abilities.

Question 21

What is early stimulation?

Answer 21

Children from environments that lack stimulation benefit from responsive caregiving and interaction // Simple activities (reading and singing with kids)

Question 22

What are individual differences in intelligence?

Answer 22

Genes and Enviroment

Question 23

What are group differences in intelligence?

Answer 23

Environment

Question 24

What are 3 bits of intelligence in Sternburgs?

Answer 24

(CAP) Creativity, Analytical, and Practical Intelligence

Question 25

What is the majority cultures group difference?

Answer 25

The majority culture makes IQ tests and only measures one type of intelligence // Who is the 16th AMERICAN president?

Question 26

What are the environmental effects causing group differences?

Answer 26

Racism, discrimination, & stereotypes.

Question 27

What is a stereotype threat?

Answer 27

Threat decreases problem-solving strategies & working memory capacity. Heightened anxiety // Women are stereotyped to be bad at math and that reflects in their scores.

Question 28

What is industrial-organizational psychology (IO)?

Answer 28

3 areas:
Personnel- talking to people about their best job interest, who would work the best for our company?

Organizational- helps more the workplace well-being// how to make the whole organization run smoothly

Human Factors/Ergonomics- increase comfort and flexibility in the workplace. // rather sit in a desk chair, on a ball, or stand to do homework.

Question 29

What are the 3 work attitudes?

Answer 29

It’s a job- Unfulfilling but necessary // office job
It’s my career- An opportunity to advance from one position to a better position // insider to manager (papa johns)
It’s my calling- Fulfilling & socially useful activity // Be a lawyer (major)

Question 30

What is flow?

Answer 30

Completly involved focused state of consciousness // Reading a good book. “Where has the time gone?”

Question 31

What is 360 Degree Feedback?

Answer 31

Feedback coming from multiple different areas or people // Co-workes, managers, and customers telling you how well you’re doing or what you need to do better.

Question 32

What is interviewer illusion?

Answer 32

Overconfidence inability to predict candidates’ future job performance // Interviewer thinks they are attractive so they thought they would get the job regardless of what they gave at the interview.

Question 33

What are some errors with unconstructed interviews?

Answer 33

Different questions to different people

Question 34

What is standardized in structured interviews?

Answer 34

Job analysis, predetermined questions, and rating scales increase reliability & validity.

Question 35

What is job satisfaction and what is it related to?

Answer 35

Individuals’ attitudes towards their job. It’s related to performance and workplace damage.

Question 36

What is task leadership?

Answer 36

Focuses on goals & organizing work. Assigns tasks to people.

Question 37

What is social leadership?

Answer 37

Builds teamwork. Delegates authority & more participation (democratic style) // feedback from employees in a meeting so they can do better.

Question 38

What is transformational leadership?

Answer 38

High standards –> visionary–> individualized attention to worker needs –> motivates others to identify commitment to the group’s mission.

Question 39

What is human factor psychology (Ergonomics)? What were the goals?

Answer 39

How machines and environments can be optimally designed to fit human abilities and expectations // countertops to be leveled

Goals: Decrease work stress & accidents // Pulled on a pushed door (having a sign say push or pull)

Question 40

What is operant conditioning in the workforce?

Answer 40

Getting a raise when you do a good job. (Being awarded for good behavior)

Question 41

What’s the attribution theory?

Answer 41

Situational: the situation // Stealing diapers not having enough money

Dispositional: Personality traits // criminal

Question 42

What is the fundamental attribution error?

Answer 42

Not understanding the context of what has happened // Someone being late to class & automatically thinking they are unprepared or slow.