Intelligence

Question 1

Intelligence

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A great abstract concept. Ability to think creatively and apply knowledge to new situations.

Question 2

Psychometrics

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Measuring the mind. Speed processing.

Question 3

Fluid intelligence

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Ability to think abstractly, reason quickly. Problem solve independent of ant acquired knowledge.

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Crystallized intelligence

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Related to heuristics. Older you are, the slower your process but can still make fast decisions.

Question 5

Savant syndrome

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Related to Autism. Not all savants are on the spectrum. Ex: Talents.

Question 6

Francis Galton

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First to think intelligence could be quantified. Tried to correlate reaction time with intelligence. Believed in eugenics.

Question 7

Alfred Binet

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French. Came up with a test to classify mental abilities in a french school to see who was struggling.

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Mental age

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What age someone is operating at.

Question 9

Chronological age

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How old you actually are.

Question 10

Lewis Terman

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Americanized the Binet test, and changed it to Stanford Binet test. Also believed in Eugenics. Used test results to justify racist ideas.

Question 11

David Wechsler

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Scales were different than others. Test was not just verbal based. Reduced biased against those who were not very verbally proficient.

Question 12

Howard Gardner

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Believed intelligence cannot be reduced to just one number. Have multiple linguistics.

Question 13

Charles Spearman

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We all have general intelligence (g), and have specific mental ability outside your (g), called (s).

Question 14

Robert Sternberg

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Intelligence applied in environment that person lives in.

Question 15

Flynn effect

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Over time, average IQ of a society rises, and that scale that a person uses to measure IQ needs to be adjusted.

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Stereotype threat

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Members of a group are thought to be “less than.” All races are equal.

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Single-Blind

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Get a representative sample, do not tell sample they’re taking a test. Racial differences disappear when you do not tell them or a member of a group.

Question 18

Standardization

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Test is given to many people as a pre test, before it becomes an official test. Creates a bell curve.

Question 19

Reliability

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If you take an IQ test and get a really good score, but take the test again but a different version and you score lower then it’s not reliable. Higher correlation = more reliable.

Question 20

Validity

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Most important measure. Measures what it’s supposed to measure.

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Content validity

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Evaluates all aspects of a topic

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Construct validity

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Evaluates how well a test covers all relevant parts of the construct it aims to measure.

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Criterion validity

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Evaluates how accurately a test measures the outcome it was designed to measure.

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Predictive validity

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The ability of a test or other measurement to predict a future outcome.

Question 25

William James

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Human traits evolved to perform a function.

Question 26

Second Language Acquisition

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It is purposeful conscious activity to try and encode the rules, conventions, and patterns of a 2nd language.

Question 27

Primary Acquisition

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An unconscious process. Just happens through a complex neural process.

Question 28

Norm Chomsky

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Nativist. Humans must learn. Learn or develop a language.

Question 29

Edward Sapir

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Language we are born into shapes or determines what we think in unattainable way. Words that do not translate easily.

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Linguistic determinism

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The concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception.

Question 31

Sapir Whorf hypothesis

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Edward Sapir. The proposal that the particular language one speaks influences the way one thinks about reality.