Week 9- Assessment of Intelligence

Question 1

What were the 3 factors of intelligence that came up in 1981?

Answer 1

Verbal intelligence, practical intelligence, problem solving ability

Question 2

What is the g theory of intelligence?

Answer 2

general theory of intelligence- general positive manifold. All sectors of intelligence correlated with each other. People who were good at one thing tended to be pretty good at other things. Intelligence governerd by general intelligence.

Question 3

What is a spliter?

Answer 3

120-150 different abilities. Separate and independent.

Question 4

What does guilford’s taxonomy say?

Answer 4

Cognition-semantic- relations

Question 5

What was heirchical model?

Answer 5

G exists and there is two abilities that feed into G- Mechanical abilities and verbal abilities. Then there are little things into those

Question 6

What was thurston’s theory?

Answer 6

Had 7 abilities in the middle layer. VWNSMPI

Question 7

What is the current most popular model?

Answer 7

CHC model

Question 8

What does Carrol’s 3 tier model?

Answer 8

Collected 416 data samples. Cross continental. Was a meta analysis.
Same for males, females, gender, race

Intelligence is cognition. Anything else is measured indepedent of cognition.

General intelligence (cognition)
Then goes to Broad
The goes to narrow.

Question 9

What is fluidability and crystalised ability?

Answer 9

Fluid- ability to evaluate something theyve never seen before.
Crystalised- Understanding the meaning of the word- specific to the knowledge you are familiar with. Knowing one fact generally doesnt help you know another

Question 10

Nature or nuture?

Answer 10

Inheritance is inheritant to a certain extent and it can be modified to a certain extent.

Question 11

What was revealed from the twin study?

Answer 11

Fraternal twins (same environment) show that intelligence correlations dropped 
MZ twins reared together= have high correlation
MZ twins reared again- much lower correlation= genes play an important role.

Question 12

In twins what is MZ and DZ

Answer 12

MZ= identical
DZ= Fraternal

Question 13

What environmental influences on IQ

Answer 13

• Prenatal and early developmental influences (dont have long term affects)
• Malnutrition (does have long term effects. significant)
• Family background (highly singicantly correlated but only in child’s natural family not adoptive family)
• Psychosocial factors (Highest correlation across board)
• amount of schooling

Question 14

Why are individual tests good?

Answer 14

-Maxamise the information
-Give extra clinical info on a) how does the person answer
b) test behaviour (do they give up easily)
Make allowances for fatique and handicaps.

Question 15

What are the advatages of group tests?

Answer 15

The ease and efficiency of
scoring and administration.
• Less skill and training is
required on the examiners part
• Quite reliable and
standardisation samples usually
large
• Economical as the test booklets
are reusable

Question 16

What are disadvantages of group tests?

Answer 16

• Hard to maintain motivation and
rapport and assess and allow for
factors such as anxiety which are
important moderators in test
situation.
• Limited response choice e.g.,
multiple choice items. Lose the
richness obtained in individual tests.
• The assumption is that the tests are
equally applicable to all subjects.
Some subjects get bored because
the test is to easy, or frustrated
because it is too hard. Individual
differences are not catered for.

Question 17

What formats do group IQ tests come in?

Answer 17

verbal vs non-verbal
• power vs speed
• multiple choice vs
free recall
• multilevel testing
• adaptive computer
testing