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Intelligence
Is an individuals ability to: Understand complex ideas Adapt effectively to the environment Learn from experience Engage in various forms of reasoning Overcome obstacles by careful thought
Factor Analysis.
A statistical procedure to discover independent elements that make up intelligence.
Spearman’s 1923
g and s factors. general intelligence
specific intelligence.
(g) - a general factor affecting all tasks.
(s) - Specific factors associated with particular tasks.
Cattells
Theory of Crystallized and Fluid intelligence.
Crystallized- Accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time.
Fluid- Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems..
Gardner
Multiple Intelligences.
Idea that people vary in their ability levels across different domains of intellectual skill.
Golemans
Emotional Intelligence Theory.
Includes awareness of own emotions and those of others, self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, self-motivation, social agility.
Sternberg’s
Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
Focuses on successful intelligence.
The ability to adapt, and select environments to accoplicsh one’s goals and those of society.
Analytical- use intel for prob solv in spec situ where there is no right or wrong answer
Practical= deals with persons experience with external world and everyday tasks.
Creative-determin tasks need to be done, order of subtask, analyze subparts to decide which info should be processed and mon perfomance
Psychometrics.
The use of psychological tests to measure the mind and mental process.
Achievement Motivation Tests.
Psych tests that measure our desire to perform challenging tasks and reach difficult goals.
Ambition or desire to be successful.
Achievement Test.
Psych tests that measure your current level of knowledge or competence.
Aptitude Tests.
Psych tests that measure your ability to learn and solve problems in a particular subject area.
Intelligence Tests.
Tests that evaluate your overall ability to learn and solve problems.
Mental Age.
Chronological age that best fits a childs level of performance on a test of mental ability.
IQ diagram.
85-115 High Normal
Over 130 Gifted
Under 70 Intellectual Disability
Eugenics.
A movement by Sir Francis Galton.
Means ‘Good Genes’
Positve eugenics-good genes people to reproduce and bad gene people are discouraged to.
Eugenics cont’d.
Restriction of immigration- people from countries thought to be inferior in intelligence.
Euthanization- Hitler
Sterilization- individuals with low I.Q alberta 1972
Standardization.
Keeping the testing, scoring, and interpretation procedures similar across all administrations of a test.
Reliability.
Measure of the consistency of test results. Reliable tests give people similar scores when the test is repeated.
Split-Half Reliability
Ability of a test to give the same scores in the first and second halves of the test.
Test-retest.
The same test is given to the same people after a period of time.
After the retest, we have two scores on the same measure for each person.
Correlation between scores of the test is obtained.
Validity.
Assessment of how well a test measures what it is suppose to be measuring.
Content Validity.
Assesses the degree to which the content of a test samples broadly across the domain of interest.
Predictive Validity.
Assesses how well the test predicts an important criterion.
Construct Validity.
Assesses how well the test captures all the details of the theoretical construct.
