Chapter 11 - Intelligence Flashcards
The ability typically measured by intelligence tests and crucial for academic success.
Analytic intelligence
A measure of the speed of mental processing that takes place when someone must choose between several responses, depending on which stimulus is presented
Choice reaction time
Squired knowledge, including the persons repertoire of verbal knowledge and cognitive skills
Crystallized intelligence
The ability to understand your own and others emotions and to control your emotions appropriately
Emotional intelligence
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.
Factor analysis
The ability to deal with new and unusual problems
Fluid intelligence
A worldwide increase in IQ scores over the last several decades, at a rate of about 3 points per decade
Flynn effect
A mental attribute that is hypothesized as contributing to the performance if virtually any intellectual task
General intelligence
The mental process of keeping ones goal in mind to guide the selection of the next actions
Goal maintenance
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
Heritability ratio H
The time someone needs to make a simple discrimination between two stimuli
Inspection time
In Howard gardener a theory, the six essential, independent mental capacities (linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, and personal intelligence)
Multiple intelligences
The ability to solve everyday problems through skilled reasoning that relies on tactic knowledge
Practical intelligence
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
Predictive validity
An attempt to understand the nature of intelligence by studying the pattern of results obtained on intelligence tests
Psychometric approach to intelligence
