Chapter 11- Intelligence Flashcards
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Viewing an abstract, immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing.
Reification
mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
Intelligence
Statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test. Used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie ones total score.
Factor analysis
Helped devolp, factor analysis, believed there is also a general intelligence, or a g factor that underlies the various clusters.
Charles Spearman
General intelligence factor that according to spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and is therefor measured by every task on an intelligence test.
General Intelligence
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
Savant syndrome
The ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions
Emotional intelligence
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
Creativity
Method for assessing an individuals mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
Intelligence test
A measure or intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance.
Mental age
Stanford-Binet
The widely used American revision of Binets original intelligence test
rejected g-factor. Didn’t rank his subjects on a single scale of general aptitude. Argued that factor analysis revealed seven independent mental abilities.
L. L. Thurstone
stated that people have specific intellectual potentials, or “intelligences,” each involving a set of problem-solving skills. (Linguistic, Logical-mathematical, Musical, Spatial, Bodily-kinesthetic, Intrapersonal (self), Interpersonal (other people), Naturalist)
Howard Gardner
triarchic theory distinguishes three intelligences: analytical (academic problem-solving) intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence.
Robert Sternberg
started the modern intelligence-testing movement by developing questions that helped predict children’s future progress in the Paris school system. (determining which students needed to be placed in Special Education classrooms)
Alfred Binet
a Stanford University Professor, Terman revised Binet’s original IQ test by establishing new age norms and extending the upper end of the test’s range from teenagers to “superior adults.” Supported the Nature side of the debate.
Lewis Terman
defined originally as the ration of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ = ma/ca x 100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
a test designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.
Aptitude Tests
a test designed to assess what a person has learned.
Achievement Test
the WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group.
Standardization
intelligence test performance has been improving.
The Flynn Effect
: the symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes.
Normal Curve
the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting.
Reliability
