Task 2 Asl leo if he has anything to add on EI Flashcards
What is mental ability ?
-The capacity to solve problems that demand thinking-related skills/problems
How do we meassure intelligence ?
Via the Multidimensional Aptitude Batter test
How does the multidimensional test work ?
it test for
- Vocbulary (Find a rlated word to theg given word)
- Spatial (matching two shapes
- Arithemtic (math)
- Picture arrangment (conclude the comic in the way that it makes the most sense
Which ability does each component of the - Multidimensional Aptitude Batter describe ?
- Vocabulary = verbal ability
- Arithmetic = quantitative ability
- Spatial = spatial orienatation
- Picture arrangment = Social interpretation
Who is the first person who tested mental ability ?
- Alfred binet
What was spearman main research question ?
- Is there a single major dimension of mental ability, or whether there are instead several independent varieties of mental ability ?
What did sperman concluded regarding his research question ?
- That there is a general intelligenece
What is the g factor ?
- correlation between two task
What is the principell of the indiffernce of the indicator ?
- the content of the task does not matter regarding high g loading or low g loading
Why is the g factor not a common thing anymore ?
- because the g factor could not explain the relation among various mental abilities -> thurstone
What is a high g loading task ? And explain it
- Check the relationship of a given statment and copy it relationship to the new part -> definition
- eduction of relations and correlates -> task
What are the primary factors regarding thurstone ?
- Verbal fluency
- Verbal comprehension
- Numerical facility (= ability to work quickly with numbers)
- Spatial visualisation (= ability to imagine shapes from different perspectives)
- Memory
- Perceptual speed
- Reasoning
What is the thurstone opinion regarding teh g factors ?
- several factors are needed to explain mental ability ?
What are some critics regarding primary factors ?
- All factors had something in common
- IQ test only focused on verbal factors
What is the G + group factor ?
- You have mulitple factors which all come together at the general mental ability lvl !
What is gilford opinion regarding mental ability ?
- that there are more then 180 intelligent factors
What is the critic on Gilford opinion ?
- Way to many factors
- not enough emparical evidence !
What are the developmental changes regarding mental ability ?
- mental ability increase rapidly through childhood till late adolesence and then decrease during old age
Which study should we use and why should we use it to explore mental ability ?
- longitudinal stidy
- because u aviod the cohort effect
What are the factors influencing mental abilities ?
- Brain size (certain regions
- Reaction time (the shorter the better)
- inspection time (how long does a timuli has to present to be caught by the brain)
Name the other correlaters regarding mental ability:
- Nerve conduction speed (nerve system and brain transmmit pulses)
- Averaged evoked potentials (brain waves in response to stimuli)
- Brain glucose metabolism – rate at which brain uses glucose
- Womb Environment Influences (nutrients, toxins, and hormones)
- lower lvl of Vitamin B12 = mental ability
- brith order
What is so special about birth order ?
- First born higher IQ
- Steaching second chidl
- undivided attention
- > All social
What is the relation regarding evolution and mental abilities ?
- Mutation increase or decrease mental abilities
- Depending on the coast and benefit ratio
What is the relationship regarding academic achievments and mental ability ?
- there is an important link
- 0.6 correlation
- Maybe the test was to similar to IQ test
What is the relationship regarding jobs and mental abilities ?
- Smarter worker = better worker
- However, importance of IQ as a predictor depends on the nature of the job
- Also good for status and income
What is the relationship regarding longevity and mental abilities ?
- higher iQ = longer live
- worse brain = maybe due to damage and also higher risk taking
What is the relation between criminality and mental abilities ?
- People that commit crimes on average have lower IQs
- Do not see the risk
- Do not have a good job
- Worse decision making problem (biological)
- higher IQ do not get caught
How do we meassure mental abilities ?
- testing = reasoning , understanding, imagining, remembering
- Familiar to all people
What are novel task ? What is so sepcial about fluid task?
- Task which are completly new and test fluid flexible response ability
- fluid ability increased over time
What are familiar task or crystallized task ?
- well learned skills or knowledge abilities
- did not increase over time ?
What is the Flynn effect ?
- Showes that mental abilities improved ober the years
- mostly in fluid task
- 0.3 IQ points per year
- Stronger gains for adults than children
- strongly realted to historical events
Why does mental ability increase ?
- more education
- thinking abstractly
- more cognitive demand jobs
- Tecnology
- family size (decreasin)
- Hybrid vigor: cross-cultural mating -> increases allelic heterozygosity
- nutrition -> = higher IQ so parents focus on more nutrition intake
- less stress -> healthy enviormen
- slower LIFE HISTORY SPEED (less kids) -> more energetic investment
What is Garnders theory of multiple intelligence ?
- Eight kind of intellegnce instead of one single major factor
- linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinaesthetic (motor coordination), interpersonal (understand social situations of others), intrapersonal (understands own situation) , naturalistic (classify elements in the natural world)
- everyone has own strenghts
What are the limitations regarding Gardners theory ?
- not all are mental abilities
- no empirical evidence
- all are largely correlated
What is Sternberg Triachrich theory of intelligencce?
Three fundamental aspects :
- Analytic intelligence= think logically & critically
- Creative intelligence: formulate new ideas &; gain original insights into problems
- Practical intelligence : “street smartness” meaning ability to solve problems in everyday life
- All correlate as well
What is EI Emotional intelligence by mayer ?
- Ability to perceive & understand one’s and others’ emotions, to discriminate among them and use this info to guide one’s thinking and actions
What is EI emotional intelligence by Golemann ?
- Involves an ability to regulate one’s emotions and includes such characteristics as self-control, self-confidence, trustworthiness, empathy, optimism, achievement orientation, conflict management, teamwork, and awareness of one’s emotions
What are the assumption of the four branch model ?
- needs appropriate behavior by the people who u interact with
- personality and emotional intelligence are the same
What are the four abilities of the four branch model ?
- perceiving (detect emotions everywhere )
- using emotions (good for the task)
- undertsanding emotions
- managing emotions (of self and others
Why is EI so important ?
- better predictor for life outomes
- negatively correlated with antisocial behaviour
- correaltesto higher intellegence attractive friendly and promotions
How do we meassure EI ?
- Via self reports
- via (MSCEIT)
- high score means success in life / opposite sex attraction /intelligence and friendliness.
