Unit 11 Flashcards
Method of assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparingg them with others
Intelligence tests
Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new experiences
Intelligence
Identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person’s total score
Factor analysis
Underlies specific mental abilities and is measured by every test on an intelligence test
General intelligence
A person limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as drawing or computation
Savant syndrome
What are the 4 aspects of emotional intelligence?
Perceive, understand, manage, use
Ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
Emotional intelligence
Level of performance associated with a chronological age
Mental age
Widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test
Stanford-Binet
Average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100
IQ
Promoted widespread use of intelligence testing; renamed the IQ test the Stanford-Binet
Lewis Terman
Identified several clusters of mental abilities
L.L. Thurstone
Measured mental age of children
Alfred Binet
Views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in packages
Howard Gardner
Believed that we have 3 intelligences
Robert Sternberg
Believed we had 1 general intelligence
Charles Spearman
Believed in the inheritance of a genius
Francis Galton
Predicts a person’s future performance
Aptitude test
Assesses what a person has learned
Achievement test
Most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtests
WAIS
Created Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test
David Wechsler
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
Standardization
Symmetrical, bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of attributes
Normal curve
Calculated the magnitude of how intelligent we are compared to the past
James Flynn (Flynn effect)
Extent to which a test yields consistent results, assessed by the consistency of scores on 2 halves of the test
Reliability
Extent to which the test actually measures or predicts what it promises
Validity
Extent to which a test samples the behavior that’s of interest
Content validity
Success with which a test predicts the behavior it’s designed to predict
Predictive validity
Having limited mental ability, intelligence score below 70, having difficulty adapting to the demands of life
Intellectual disability
Intellectual disability and physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome 21
Down syndrome
Self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated on a negative stereotype
Stereotype threat
Made the equation for derived IQ
William stern
What are the 3 intelligences Sternberg proposed?
Practical, analytical, creative
