Intelligence - Unit 2 Flashcards
Emotional Intelligence
Ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.
Stereotype threat
Stereotype threat is a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group (race, stratus, gender, nationality, sexual tendency, etc).
Influence of culture in intelligence
People who are met with challenges that increase the need to use brain power may have a greater measured intelligence. Whereas people who are stressed because of the nature of their environment score worse on intelligence measures.
Theory of General Intelligence
Proposes the existence of a single, underlying factor that contributes to an individual’s overall cognitive abilities. “IQ.”
Fluid Reasoning (g)
Involves the ability to solve new problems, think abstractly, and adapt to new situations without relying on prior knowledge. Capacity to reason and solve new problems.
Crystallized Intelligence (g)
Knowledge and skills of an individual are acquired over time through education and experience.
Memory (g)
A person’s ability to remember and recall facts, events, and experiences contributes to their overall intelligence.
Attention (g)
An individual’s ability to concentrate on a task, ignore distractions, and sustain attention over time.
Reasoning & Problem Solving (g)
Ability to reason logically and solve complex problems. This includes deductive reasoning (drawing conclusions from premises) and inductive reasoning (making generalizations based on observations or evidence).
Language (g)
Language skills, including vocabulary, grammar, and the ability to comprehend and produce written and spoken language, are a fundamental part of intelligence.
IQ
Total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence.
Theory of Multiple Intelligences (h)
Gardner initially proposed seven types of intelligences in his theory, and later added an eighth. Each intelligence represents a different way of processing information and understanding the world.
Linguistic (h)
The ability to understand and use spoken and written words effectively.
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (h)
Logical reasoning, problem-solving, and mathematical abilities.
Spatial Intelligence (h)
Capacity to visualize and manipulate objects in three-dimensional space.
