Chapter 7 Thinking, Language and Intelligence: Module 23 Flashcards
Intelligence
The capacity to understand the world, think rationally, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges.
G factor
The single, general factor for mental ability assumed underlie intelligence in some early theories of intelligence.
Fluid intelligence
Intelligence that reflects information-processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory.
Crystallized intelligence
The accumulation of information, skills, and strategies that are learned through experience and can be applied in problem solving situations.
Theory of multiple intelligences
Gardner’s intelligence theory proposing that there are eight distinct spheres of intelligence.
Existential intelligence
Involves identifying and thinking about the fundamental questions of human existence.
Practical intelligence
According to Sternberg, intelligence related to overall success in living.
Emotional intelligence
The set of skills that underlie the accurate assessment, evaluation, expression, and regulation of emotions.
Intelligence tests
Tests devised to quantify a person’s level of intelligence.
Mental age
The age for which a given level of performance is average or typical.
Intelligence quotient
A score that takes into account an individual’s mental and chronological ages.
Reliability
The property by which tests measure consistently what they are trying to measure.
Validity
The property by which tests actually measure what they are supposed to measure.
Norms
Standards of test performance that permit the comparison of one person’s score on a test with the scores of other individuals who have taken the same test.
Mental retardation
A condition characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills.
