Chapter 10: Intelligence Flashcards
The ability to use one’s mind to solve novel problems and learn from experience
Intelligence
Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon developed…
First Intelligence Test to identify children who needed remedial education
A statistic obtained by dividing a persons mental age by a persons physical age (developed by Lewis Terman)
Ratio IQ
Deviation IQ
A statistic obtained by dividing an adults test score by the average adults test score then multiplying by 100 (developed by Lewis Terman)
A persons performance on a test is due to a combination of general ability and skills that are specific to the test
Two factor Theory
One of the first people to measure intelligence and used discriminatory measures to measure intelligence
Henry Goddard (1866-1957)
William Stern
Coined the term “mental age”
Lewis Terman
Developed Modern IQ Test (ratio and deviation IQ)
Tests were originally developed for…
Noble reasons, mainly to help underprivileged children
Aptitude tests like the SAT’s are measuring…
Your potential to learn (how good you can become)
Achievement tests like a driving test measure…
What knowledge you know right now
Crystallized Intelligence
Ability to apply knowledge that was acquired through experience (taking a class)
Refers to the ability to solve problems and reason about normal problems
Fluid Intelligence
The ability to reason about emotions and to use emotions to enhance reasoning
Emotional Intelligence (very important for people to have emotional intelligence as it helps with social skills)
Fraternal Twins
Also known as dizygotic twins, twins who develop from two different eggs that were fertilized by different sperm
Identical Twins
Also known as monozygotic twins, twins who develop from the splitting of a single egg that was fertilized by a single sperm
What do intelligence test scores correlate with?
Successful life events, accomplishments, general cognitive ability
Shared Environment
Features of an environment that are experienced by all relevant members of a household
Features of the environment that are not experienced by all relevant members of a household
Non-shared Environment
Analytic Intelligence
Problem Solving
Novel Solutions
New or unusual solution to a problem
Practical Intelligence
Every day
Louis Thurstone
Believed that intelligence is composed of seven independent factors inc.. (word fluency, verbal comprehension)
John Carroll (1916-2003)
Found patterns of correlation with the crystallized and fluid intelligence
