Unit 11 Flashcards

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Method of assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparingg them with others

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Intelligence tests

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Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new experiences

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Intelligence

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Identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person’s total score

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Factor analysis

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4
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Underlies specific mental abilities and is measured by every test on an intelligence test

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General intelligence

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5
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A person limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as drawing or computation

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Savant syndrome

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6
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What are the 4 aspects of emotional intelligence?

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Perceive, understand, manage, use

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7
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Ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions

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Emotional intelligence

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8
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Level of performance associated with a chronological age

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Mental age

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9
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Widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test

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Stanford-Binet

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10
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Average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100

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IQ

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Promoted widespread use of intelligence testing; renamed the IQ test the Stanford-Binet

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Lewis Terman

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12
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Identified several clusters of mental abilities

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L.L. Thurstone

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13
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Measured mental age of children

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Alfred Binet

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14
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Views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in packages

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Howard Gardner

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15
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Believed that we have 3 intelligences

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Robert Sternberg

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16
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Believed we had 1 general intelligence

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Charles Spearman

17
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Believed in the inheritance of a genius

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Francis Galton

18
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Predicts a person’s future performance

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Aptitude test

19
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Assesses what a person has learned

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Achievement test

20
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Most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtests

21
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Created Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test

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David Wechsler

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Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group

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Standardization

23
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Symmetrical, bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of attributes

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Normal curve

24
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Calculated the magnitude of how intelligent we are compared to the past

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James Flynn (Flynn effect)

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Extent to which a test yields consistent results, assessed by the consistency of scores on 2 halves of the test
Reliability
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Extent to which the test actually measures or predicts what it promises
Validity
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Extent to which a test samples the behavior that's of interest
Content validity
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Success with which a test predicts the behavior it's designed to predict
Predictive validity
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Having limited mental ability, intelligence score below 70, having difficulty adapting to the demands of life
Intellectual disability
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Intellectual disability and physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome 21
Down syndrome
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Self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated on a negative stereotype
Stereotype threat
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Made the equation for derived IQ
William stern
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What are the 3 intelligences Sternberg proposed?
Practical, analytical, creative