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Week 5 Flashcards

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What did Francis Galton state

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People with physical abilities have more mental capabilities

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What is differential psychology

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Investigation of differences in physical, personality, and intellectual traits

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What is the deviation IQ

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Comparing a persons test score to the mean at those at their age

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What is intelligence

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The ability for one to solve problems, learn and adapt from an experience, and can only be evaluated indirectly

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Is there a correlation between brain size and intelligence

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Yes

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What is the location of intelligence and the location of the highest levels of thinking, respectively

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The frontal lobes and the prefrontal cortex

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What contributes to brain size and intelligence

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Heredity and environment

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What are the two theories of intelligence

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1) Intelligence is very broad or general

2) Intelligence consists of distinct abilities

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What is factor analysis

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A statistical method of assessing patterns of correlations in order to identify mathematically defined factors

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What is step one of factor analysis

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Collect data in the form of a set of personality measures

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What is step two of factor analysis

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The scores of each adjective are correlated with the scores of each other adjective

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What is step three of factor analysis

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The researcher identifies the factor that best account for the observed patterns of correlations

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What is step four of factor analysis

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Label the factor, which could be subjective

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What is Carroll’s hierarchal theory of intelligence

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On the outside are broad abilities of intelligence, and on the inside are more narrow abilities

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What did Gardner do

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Used existing research to make 9 types of intelligence and schools should foster all 9 types of intelligence

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What is an intellectual disability

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When an individual has low IQ, and difficulty adapting to the demands of everyday life

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What is organic intellectual disability

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Genetic disorders that lead to intellectual disability

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What is cultural-familial intellectual disability

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Resulting from growing up in a below average intellectual environment

19
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How is someone deemed as gifted

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Having an IQ score of 130 or higher, meaning high intelligence

20
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What are gifted programs

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Programs in school systems that select kids with more academic success

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What are the characteristic of gifted children

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They need minimal help from others and go about solving problems on their own in unique ways, and have a passion to master things

22
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What is the idea of eugenics

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Encouraging people who are superior to reproduce while preventing people who are inferior to reproduce

23
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What did Carl Brigham admit

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That mistakes were made in assuming lower IQs of immigrants because the test had cultural implications

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What is nature

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A persons biological inheritence

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What is nurture

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The entire set of environmental conditions to which someone is exposed

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What is heritability

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The degree to which variation can be attributed to genetics (measured with the heritability coefficient 0-1)

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What is environmentality

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Proportion of variance that arises from the environment (1-heritability coefficient)

28
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How does an openness to experiences relate to IQ

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It leads to higher IQ

29
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How does occupation relate to IQ

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Handling a great deal of information and doing different things leads to higher intellectual flexibility

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