Week 16

Question 1

List 2 common strategies for measuring intelligence

Answer 1

IQ test
the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Question 2

Name at least 1 type of intelligence

Answer 2

Emotional intelligence-stress management, personality, label emotions, understand other’s emotions

Question 3

Define intelligence

Answer 3

An individual’s cognitive capability, includes the ability to acquire, process, recall and apply information

Question 4

Explain the controversy relating to differences in intelligence between groups

Answer 4

Women are superior to men in terms of fine motor skills, acquired knowledge, reading comprehensions, decoding non0verbal expression and higher grades in school
Men are better with fluid reasoning related to math and science, perceptual tasks that involve moving objects

Question 5

Compare and contrast satisfaction and satisfactoriness

Answer 5

Satisfaction is the correspondence between an individual’s needs or preferences and the rewards offered by the enviornment (do you like it)
Satisfactoriness is the individual’s abilities and the ability requirements of the enviornment (can you do it)

Question 6

Discuss why the model of talent development offered in this module places equal emphasis on assessing the person and assessing the environment

Answer 6

Assessing both abilities and interests of individuals and the reward structure of the environment because it constitutes satisfactoriness (maximize positive psychological growth)

Question 7

Articulate the relationship between ability and learning performance?

Answer 7

Having an ability will allow you to use what you learned to perform
Must learn the ability before you can perform

Question 8

Understand the issue of ability threshold beyond which more ability may or may not matter

Answer 8

More ability does make a difference in learning, working, and creating, even among the top 1%
There is not an ability threshold

Question 9

List personal attributes other than interests and abilities that are important to individual accomplishments

Answer 9

Opportunity
Zeal and will and industriousness (individual differences in energy or psychological tempo)

Question 10

Understand the systematic biases that affect our judgment and decision making

Answer 10

Overconfidence
Anchoring (initial thing that influences judgment)
Framing (the way information is presented)

Question 11

Develop strategies for making better decisions

Answer 11

System 2-slower decision making, logical, effortful (system 2 for important decisions)
Simple changes to defaults dramatically improve people’s decisions