Lectures 8 & 9 Flashcards
Intelligence
A person’s ability to learn and remember information, to recognize concepts and their relations and to apply this info
Sir Frances Galton
Used stats to measure if intelligence was hereditary
Binet & Simon
Classify and separate developmentally disabled kids
- Mental age vs chronological age
William Stern
Developed Intelligence Quotient
- Ratio IQ, compared everyone to one another
Arthur Otis
Developed the Alpha and Beta IQ tests for military in WWI
David Weschler
Multiple Intelligences
- Average score fixed at 100
Spearman’s Two Factor Theory
G- Factor: Figure out general patters to extrapolate to new situations
S-Factor: Figure overlapping abilities and the parts which overlap becomes general
Sternberg’s 3 factor Theory
Componential Sub theory: Book smarts
Experiential sub theory: includes novelty and automacy, how well you deal with new situations
Contextual sub theory: Street smarts, can you survive in your environment
Psychometrics
statistical study of psychological tests
Sternberg’s 3 factor theory
Divide underlying cognitive processes into 3 components:
Metacomponents: higher order processes used to plan (CEO)
Performance components: mental process of performing the task (Worker)
Knowledge acquisition component: Learning and storing of new memory
Sternberg proposed that intelligent behaviour has 3 underlying cognitive processes, but also that intelligence has 3 forms, what are the 3 types of intelligence he proposes
Analytical: academic problem solving, traditional intelligence tests
Practical application: Refers to every day knowledge and skills
Creative intelligence: comprises the mental skills needed to deal adaptively with novel problems
Gardners multiple intelligences based off of neuropsychology are
Linguistic, logical-mathematical, visuospatial, musical intelligence, bodily-kinaesthetic, interpersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic
C-H-C theory
Cattle Horn Carrol 3 strata theory
General factor to Broad/Group factor to specific narrow factors
Aptitude tests
what we are capable of doing
psychometrics
using statistic and factor analysis to study psychological testing
Properties of a good intelligence test
Reliability,Validity, and Unbiased
What are the age groups for Wechsler’s tests
WAIS IV - 16+
WISC IV - 6-16
WPPSI III - 2.5-7
What are the low end ranges of intelligence test scores
Low Normal: 71-100
Mild: 50-70 - may need some help
Moderate: 45-50 need weekly help but can learn basic skills
Severe: 20-35 - requires total supervision
Profound: under 20
Men tend to be better at what types of activities for intelligence? what about women?
Men: spatial, target directed, math, grey matter
Women: Perceptual, fine motor, verbal, white matter
