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MIDTERM II CHAPTER 10 Flashcards

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The ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment

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Intelligence

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Two assumptions of Binet about intelligence

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1) mental abilities develop w/ age

2) rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic and is fairly constant

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Result of Binet’s test

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Mental age

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What is IQ?

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ) = (mental age/chronological age) x 100

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Statistical study of psychology

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Psychometrics

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Statistical technique which reduces a large number of measures to a smaller number of clusters/ factors with each clusters containing variables that correlate highly with one another but less highly with variables in other clusters

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Factor analysis

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Determines partly the intellectual performance of a person

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G factor (general intelligence)

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Human mental performance depends not on a general factor but on seven distinct abilities called:

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Primary Mental Abilities

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Ability to apply perviously acquired knowledge to current problems

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Crystallized intelligence

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Ability to deal with novel problem-solving situations for which personal experience does not provide solutions

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Fluid intelligence

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Good measures of crystallized intelligence

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Vocabulary test and information tests

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Establishes three levels of mental skills - general, broad and narrow

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Three Stratum Theory of Cognitive Abilities

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Explore the specific information processing and cognitive processes that underlie intellectual ability

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Cognitive process theories

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Addresses both psychological processes involved in intelligent behaviour and the diverse forms that intelligence can take

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Triarchic theory of intelligence

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The higher order processes used to plan and regulate task performance

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Metacomponents

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Actual mental processes used to perform task

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Performance components

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Allow us to learn from our experiences,s tore info in memory and combine new insights with previously acquired info

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Knowledge acquisition components

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Academically-oriented problem-solving skills measured by traditional intelligence test

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Analytical intelligence

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Skills needed to cope with everyday demands and to manage oneself and other people effectively

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Practical intelligence

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Comprises the mental skills needed to deal adaptively with novel problems

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Creative intelligence

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Involves the ability to read other’s emotions accurately, to respond to them appropriately, to motivate oneself

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Emotional intelligence

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Four components of emotional intelligence

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Perceiving emotions
Using emotions to facilitate thoughts
Understanding emotions
Managing emotions

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Designed to find out how much students have learned so far in their lives

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Achievement test

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Contains novel puzzle-like problems that presumably go beyond prior learning and are thought to measure the applicants potential for future learning and performances

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Aptitude test

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Method for measuring individual differences related to some psychological concept or construct, based on as sample of relevant behaviour in a scientifically designed and controlled situation

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Psychological test

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Refers to the consistency of measurement

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Reliability

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Assessed by administering the measure to the same group of participants on two or more separate occasions and correlating the two or more sets of scores

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Test-retest reliability

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Has to do with consistency of measurement within the test itself

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Internal consistency

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Refers to consistency of measurement when different people observe the same even or score the same test

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Interjudge reliability

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Refers to how well a test actually measures what is designed to measure

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Validity

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Exists when a test successfully measures what the psychological construct it is designed to measure

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Construct validity

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Refers to whether the items on a item on a test measure all the knowledge or skills that are assumed to underlie the construct of interest

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Content validity

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Refers to the ability of test scores to correlate meaningful criterion

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Criterion-related validity

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The development of the norms and rigorously controlled testing procedures

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Standardization

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Test score derived from a large sample that represent particular age segments of the population

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Norms

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Traditional approach to testing is called

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Static testing

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Standard testing is followed up with an interaction in which the examiner gives the respondent guided feedback on how to improve performance and observes how the person utilizes the information

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Dynamic testing

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