Intelligence Testing and Individual Differences

Question 1

Alfred Binet

Answer 1

Binet IQ Test

Used to track children into different school programs

Analytical ability
Memory
Problem solving

Question 2

Louis Terman

Answer 2

Developed an equation for IQ

Standardized the IQ test and created norms

Chronological age divided by mental age times 100 equals your IQ

Question 3

David Wechsler

Answer 3

WISC

Creates age group norms

Creates performance sections

Question 4

Standardization

Answer 4

Consistent rules for how the test is administered and its given to a large group of people to create norms

Question 5

Norms

Answer 5

Scores that are expected for each group of people taking the test

Question 6

Reliability

Answer 6

A test measures consistently over time

Question 7

Content validity

Answer 7

A test measures the material that it claims to measure

Question 8

Predictive validity

Answer 8

A test accurately predicts what it claims to predict

Question 9

Intellectual disability

Answer 9

A condition in which a persons mental capacity is low

Question 10

PKU

Answer 10

A baby lacks a certain enzyme that processes chemicals in food

If found early enough can be treated

Question 11

Microcephaly

Answer 11

Skull doesn’t grow to normal size

Puts pressure on your brain and it can’t grow

No cure

Question 12

Hydrocephaly

Answer 12

Extra fluid build up around the brain

Puts pressure on the brain

Shunt - drains fluid out of the brain

Question 13

Down syndrome

Answer 13

Extra 21st chromosome

Shorter fingers, protruding tongue, etc.

Age of the mother is a factor (35+)

Shorter life span

Question 14

Fetal Alcohol syndrome

Answer 14

Teratogen

Question 15

Timing of drinking

Answer 15

Early- cognitive delays

Late- physical abnormalities

Question 16

Traumatic brain injury

Answer 16

Injury while you were alive

Without oxygen for a certain period of time

Car crash, many severe concussions

Question 17

Charles Spearman

Answer 17

G-Factor Theory

Our intelligence can be communicated in a one number score

If you were smart in one thing you were smart in others

Question 18

L.L. Thurstone

Answer 18

Clusters (7)

Traditional school oriented concepts

Question 19

Howard Gardner

Answer 19

Multiple Intelligences (9)

Math/Logic
Verbal/Linguistic
Visual/Spacial
Etc…

Question 20

Robert Sternberg

Answer 20

Triarchic theory

Creative

Analytical

Practical

Question 21

Crystallized intelligence

Answer 21

Intelligence that gets better with age (gaining knowledge and wisdom)

Question 22

Fluid Intelligence

Answer 22

Intelligence that gets worse with age (processing speed, problem solving)

Question 23

Stanford-Binet

Answer 23

Second intelligence test

Question 24

WAIS

Answer 24

An IQ test designed to measure intelligence and cognitive ability in adults and older adolescents

Question 25

Savant Syndrome

Answer 25

When an individual with a developmental disability displays extra crazy cool capabilities of someone of their same age

Question 26

Achievement test

Answer 26

A test of developed skill or knowledge

Question 27

Aptitude test

Answer 27

Designed to see what a person is capable of doing

Question 28

Emotional intelligence

Answer 28

The capability of someone to recognize someone else's or their own emotions

Question 29

Flynn Effect

Answer 29

IQs are getting higher over time

Question 30

Early intervention

Answer 30

If you work with a mentally impaired child early it will help development

Question 31

Stereotype Threat

Answer 31

Self fulfilling prophecy for IQ If girls think they're bad at math their test scores will be lower.