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what is intelligence?

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ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

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who is Charles Spearman?

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-he created factor analysis
-created the concept of general intelligence (g)

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what is g factor?

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general intelligence that underlies succesful performance on a wide variety of tasks.

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what is factor analysis?

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statistical procedure that identifies clusters of items on a test

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who is L.L. Thurstone?

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she shifted attention from g-factor onto the concept of seven clusters of primary abilities such as spatial ability, perceptual speed, and verbal comprehension.

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in what way did both Thurstone and Spearman use factor analysis?

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They both used factor analysis to identify clusters of related intelligence abilities.

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who si Satoshi Kanazawa?

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she asserts that intelligence scores DO CORRELATE with ability to solve various novel problems but DO NOT MUCH CORRELATE with individual skills.

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what is savant syndrome?

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condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill,such as computation or drawing.

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9
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how many intelligence that we have based on Howard Gardner?

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eight

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what are the different intelligence based on Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence?

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spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, and naturalist

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what is grit?

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it is the passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals.

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who is robert sternberg?

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-created triarchic theories for both love/attraction and intelligence.

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what are the three components of Sternberg’s triarchic theory about love/attraction?

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-passion, intimacy, and commitment

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what are the three intelligences based on Sternberg?

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-analytical (academic problem-solving) intelligence
-creative intelligence
-practical intelligence

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what is emotional intelligence?

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ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions.

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what are the four components of EQ?

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-perceiving emotions
-understanding emotions
-maganing emotions
-using emotions to enable adaptice or creative thinking

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what is the statistiical information about the connection between brain size and intelligence?

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-there is a +.33 correlation between brain size and intelligence score especially in the frontal/parietal lobes.

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summarize the research findings about the connection between neural processing speed and intelligence.

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+.3 to .5 correlation between intelligence score and the neural processing speed.

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in what year does the French government commissioned Alfred Binet to devise an assessment of intelligence?

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1904

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relationship between mental age and chronological age.

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the idea is that the mental age was the LEVEL PERFORMANCE typically associated with chronological age (ACTUAL AGE).

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what is mental orthopedics?

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this is Binet’s belive that would help children develop their attention span and self-discipline that could improve their intelligence scores.

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who is Lewis Terman?

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-he spread the idea that United State should use IQ test
-revised SIMON-BINET test.

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who is the professor in Stanford that extended the upper end of the test’s range from teenagers to “superior adults”

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Lewis Terman

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how to find IQ? Mental and chronological age?

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-IQ= mental age/chronological age x 100
-M.A/C.A=IQ/100 x m.a/c.a

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define achivement test and give example.

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-test designed to assess what a person has learned.
-ex.: driver’s test

26
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define aptitude test and give example

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-test designed to predict a person’s future performance ; capacity to learn
-ex.: SAT

27
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who is David Weschler?

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-associated with the IQ tests (WAIS, WISC)
-created a test that measured intelligence without complete dependence on verbal ability.

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what is WAIS?

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-(WAIS) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
-most widely used intelligence test that contains verbal, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed scores.

29
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how many subtests does WAIS consists?what are some them?

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15; digit span, vocabulary, and object assembly.

30
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define standardization.

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process of making a test uniform or setting it to a specific standard.

31
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normal curve

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distribution of intelligence test scores in the general population forms a bell-shaped pattern.

32
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what is flynn effect?

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rising average intelligence test score over the last century

33
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why normal curve is important to standardized testing?

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it describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes.

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define reliability.

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-consistent score result even after retest.

35
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define validity.

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a test that measures or predicts what it is supposed to.

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what is content validity?what is predictive validity?

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-content validity is when a test SAMPLES THE BEHAVIOR that is of interest.
-predictive validity is the SUCCESS with which a test PREDICTS a behavior it is designed to predict.

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what is cross-section?

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when investigator measures the outcome and exposures in the study participants at the same time.

38
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what is cohort?

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group of people that share the same characteristics

39
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define crystallized intelligence. what happen to it as we age?

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-accumulated knowledge as reflected in vocabulary and analogy test.
-it increases up to old age.

40
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define fluid intelligence. what happen as we age?

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-ability to reason speedily and abstractly.
-decreases beginning in 20s and 30s, slowly up to age 75.

41
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what is intellectual disability?

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a person who has certain limitations in cognitive functioning and skills.

42
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what is “termites”?

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group of gifted children

43
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what is heritability?

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proportion of variation among individual that can be contributed to genes.

44
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define down syndrome.

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a developmental disorder caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.

45
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what is epigenetics?

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-study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.

46
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what is stereotype threat?

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a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.

47
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what skills are girls better than boys?

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-spelling
-more verbally fluent
-better at locating objects
-better at detecting emotions
-more sensitive to touch, color, and taste

48
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based on research, boys outperform girls at…

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-spatial ability and related mathematics

49
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define fixedd mindset and growth mindset.

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-fixed mindset describes people who see their qualities a fixed traits that cannot change.
-growth mindset is a belief that a person’s intelligence and abilities can grow and improve with practice.

50
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define test bias and scientific bias.

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test bias is if it detects not only innate differences in intelligence but also performance difference.
scientific bias is it hinges on a test’s validity ; whether it predict future behavior only for some groups of test-takers.

51
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what is test-retest and split-half method

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test-retest method is taking the same exam after two years to prove reliability.
split-half method is dividing the exam into two and comparing the results.

52
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who created the concept of fluid and crystallized intelligence?

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Raymond Cattell

53
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who collaborated to Alfred Binet in the creation of assessments for French school children?

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Theodore Simon

54
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who is Francis Galton?

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-wrote a book called “Heriditary Genius”
-examined how exceptional intelligence and cognitive disability runs in families.
-invented the concept of percentile ranks and correlation

55
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he added a performance scale to address non-verbal reasoning skills to IQ tests.

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David Weschler

56
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he believed that sensitivity to high-pitched sounds and reaction time would be a good predictors of IQ.

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Francis Galton

57
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who derived the famous “intelligent quotient” IQ?

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Stern

58
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Summarize Francis Galton’s research.

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measure human traits, suggests that intelligence was inherited “EUGENICS”.

59
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what are the 4 things that Galton measured?

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-reaction time
-sensory acuity
-muscular power
-body proportions

60
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define construct validity.

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IQ test should measure the intended construct of intelligence

61
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what is criterion-related validty?

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the scores of an IQ tests should correlate with other measures of intelligence or academic achievement

62
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what are the ethics of using IQ tests?

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-fairness
-informed consent
-confidentiality
-respect for diversity
-professional competence

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