Chapter 11 - Intelligence Flashcards

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The ability typically measured by intelligence tests and crucial for academic success.

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Analytic intelligence

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A measure of the speed of mental processing that takes place when someone must choose between several responses, depending on which stimulus is presented

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Choice reaction time

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Squired knowledge, including the persons repertoire of verbal knowledge and cognitive skills

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Crystallized intelligence

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The ability to understand your own and others emotions and to control your emotions appropriately

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Emotional intelligence

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A statistical method for studying the interrelations among various tests. The goal is to discover whether the tests are all influenced by the same factors.

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Factor analysis

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The ability to deal with new and unusual problems

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Fluid intelligence

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A worldwide increase in IQ scores over the last several decades, at a rate of about 3 points per decade

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Flynn effect

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A mental attribute that is hypothesized as contributing to the performance if virtually any intellectual task

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General intelligence

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The mental process of keeping ones goal in mind to guide the selection of the next actions

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Goal maintenance

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A measure that describes, for a given population in a given environment, what proportion of the variance of a trait is due to genetic differences

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Heritability ratio H

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The time someone needs to make a simple discrimination between two stimuli

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Inspection time

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In Howard gardener a theory, the six essential, independent mental capacities (linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, and personal intelligence)

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Multiple intelligences

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The ability to solve everyday problems through skilled reasoning that relies on tactic knowledge

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Practical intelligence

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14
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An assessment of whether a test measures what it’s intended to measure, based on whether the test score correlates with another relevant criterion measured later

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Predictive validity

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An attempt to understand the nature of intelligence by studying the pattern of results obtained on intelligence tests

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Psychometric approach to intelligence

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16
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A syndrome in a developmentally disabled person who has some remarkable talents that contrasts with his low level of general intelligence.

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Savant syndrome

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A measurement of how quickly someone can respond to a stimulus

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Simple reaction time

18
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A mechanism through which a persons performance is influenced by her perception that her score may confirm stereotypes about her group

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Stereotype threat

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Practical “how to” knowledge accumulated from everyday experience

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Tactic knowledge