Module 14: Intelligence

Question 1

Intelligence

Answer 1

An individual’s cognitive capability. This includes the ability to acquire, process, recall and apply information.

Question 2

Animal Intelligence

Answer 2

Apes are capable of complex problem solving and sophisticated communication, Highly social creatures
- Complex social environment: led to primates developing deception, altruism, numerical concepts, and theory of mind (a sense of self as a unique individual separate from others in a group)

Question 3

General Factor “g”s

Answer 3

synonymous with intelligence

Question 4

Alfred Binet

Answer 4

fascinated by differences in intelligence and its development

Question 5

Theodore Simon (w/ Alfred Binet)

Answer 5

created individual test items that should be answerable by children of given ages: the first IQ test
SCORE = test score/age

Question 6

Standardized Tests (by Lewis Thurman)

Answer 6

Assessments that are given in the exact same manner to all people
- With regards to intelligence tests standardized scores are individual scores that are computed to be referenced against normative scores for a population (see “norm”).

Question 7

Wechlser Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Answer 7

Tapped a wide range of intellectual abilities: remember, compute, understand language, reason well, and process information quickly
- When new waves of people are asked to take older tests they tend to outperform the original sample from years ago on which the test was normed

Question 8

Fluid Intelligence

Answer 8

ability to thinking on your feet and solve problems

- associated with youth

Question 9

Crystallized Intelligence

Answer 9

ability to use language skills, and experience to address problems
- increases with age

Question 10

Multiple Intelligences

Answer 10

• idea that people process information through different channels relatively independent of one another
  1) Logic - Math
  2) Visual - Spatial
  3) Music - Rhythm
  4) Verbal - Linguistic
  5) Bodily - Kinesthetic
  6) Interpersonal - Naturalistic

Question 11

Emotional Intelligence

Answer 11

Emphasizes experience and expression of emotion
- Set of skills in which can individual can accurately understand the emotions of others, can identify and label their emotions, and can use emotions

Question 12

Stereotype Threat

Answer 12

Idea that mental access to a particular stereotype can have real-world impact ona member of the stereotyped group