W16 Intelligence and Decision Making

Question 1

What are Howard Gardners 8 I’s

Answer 1

1.Logic-math
2.Visual-spatial
3.Music rhythm
4.Verbal-linguistic
5.Bodily-kinesthetic
6.Interpersonal
7.Intrapersonal
8.Naturalistic

Question 2

What is short for general factor?

Answer 2

G

Question 3

Why was the Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS) created?

Answer 3

Added non-verbal measures.
Attempt to address biases from differences in education, culture, language
Also because Stanford-Binet profitted significantly.

Question 3

What was the first IQ test called and then later standardized as?

Answer 3

Binet-Simon test and later the Stanford-Binet test

Question 4

What is emotional intelligence?

Answer 4

The ability to identify and control one’s own emotions and the evaluation and understanding of others’ emotions.

Question 5

What is intelligence?

Answer 5

The ability to solve complex problems or make decisions.

Question 5

What are fixed and growth mindsets?

Answer 5

The growth mindset is the belief that you can alter your intelligence with effort, studies have shown these people are more successful.

Question 5

What are the limitations of IQ?

Answer 5

Does not measure ability to think rationally and executive functioning.

Question 5

What are the models of intellectual abilities and educational interest linked to?

Answer 5

These models are linked to features of learning, work environments, ability requirements and incentive or reward structures.

Question 5

Biases

Answer 5

The lack of objectivity when looking at something.

Question 5

What is anchoring?

Answer 5

The bias to be affected by an initial anchor, even if it’s arbitrary, and to insufficiently adjust our judgments away from that anchor.

Question 5

What is ability threshold?

Answer 5

The idea that after a certain point more ability does not matter.

Question 5

What are heuristics?

Answer 5

Mental shortcuts that allow us to cope with the complex surrounding environment around our decisions but they lead to systematic and predictable biases.

Question 5

What is bounded awareness?

Answer 5

We fail to notice important information that is available to us.

Question 5

What is bounded ethically?

Answer 5

Our ethics are limited in way we are not aware ourselves.

Question 5

What is bounded rationality?

Answer 5

Model of human behavior that suggests that humans try to make rational designs but are bounded by cognitive limitations.

Question 6

What is bounded self-interest?

Answer 6

We are restricted by our inate desire to help others if it means a less-optimal outcome for ourselves.

Question 7

What is bounded willpower?

Answer 7

Even given the optimal choice, people will often choose short-term benefits over long-term ones.

Question 7

What is framing and what exactly is the effect?

Answer 7

The bias to be systematically affected by how information is presented, while holding the objective information constant. Specifically, we are less concerned with risk when information is framed positively and more concerned with risk when information is phrased negatively.

Question 8

What does overconfidence mean?

Answer 8

The bias to have greater confidence in your judgement that is warranted based on rational assessment.

Question 9

What is system 1?

Answer 9

Our intuitive decision making system: which is generally faster, automatic, effortless, implicit and emotional

Question 10

What is system 2?

Answer 10

More delibrate decision making, which is slower, conscious, effortful, explicit and logical

Question 10

What is loss-aversion?

Answer 10

People are more sensitive to losses than equivalent gains.

Question 11

What is conjunction fallacy?

Answer 11

A logical error that occurs when people think that two events are more likely to happen together than separately.

Question 12

How heritable is intelligence?

Answer 12

Highly

Question 13

What is fluid and crystalized intelligence?

Answer 13

Fluid intelligence: Abstract reasoning ability and speed, independent of knowledge.
Crystalized intelligence: General knowledge, vocabulary, and reasoning based on known information.

Question 14

Stereotype threat

Answer 14

The negative affect conscious awareness of a stereotype has on performance.

Question 15

What are Carrols Stratums?

Answer 15

This is a hierarchy level of understanding intelligence getting more specific and sub-divided the lower it gets. Stratum 3 is general intelligence factor (G). An example of stratum 2 is crystalized intelligence which the first stratum (subgroup) of that would be recalling information.