Intelligence

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Flexibility is

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Many different processes to get a particular job done

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Parsimony is the way we

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Take economically short-cuts

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Learning by mistakes is where

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Learning from when things go wrong as well as when they go right

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Main criticisms of iq testing is

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Very culture biased

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Formal intelligence definition

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the capacity to learn from experience, using meta cognitive processes to enhance learning and the ability to adapt to the surrounding environment, which may require different adaptations within dif social and cultural contexts.

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Meta cognitive processes means

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Thinking about your own thinking. Conscious strategies you use to guide you own thinking.

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Early intelligence testing focused on

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Psychophysical abilities

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Psychophysical abilities are:

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Just noticeable differences. Differential threshold, sensory acuity, physical strength, motor coordination

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Early intelligence was found to be based on your

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Physical, psychological and behavioural closely tied up together

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Cornflakes were invented to

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Cure masturbation in teenagers

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Binet developed the first traditional

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Iq test (in French schools)

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Intelligent behaviour involved 3 processes

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Direction, adaptation, criticism

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Binets direction

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Knowing what has to be done and how to do it

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Binets adaptation

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Customising a strategy for performing a task and monitoring that strategy while implementing it

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Binets criticism

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Ability to critique your own thoughts and actions

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IQ tests help us to calculate your

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Mental age -age at which you’re performing

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IQ is the quotient of your

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Mental age and chronological age

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IQ calculated by

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Mental age divided by chronological age x 100

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IQ are now calculated using

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Standardised norms or population norms

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How do we get IQ norms?

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Administering tests to 1000’s of the pop

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We compare an individual performance to

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A standard distribution of scores

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Categories in Stanford Binet IQ test

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Verbal reasoning
Quantitative reasoning
Abstract reasoning
Short-term memory

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Three themes that dominate human cognition

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Flexibility
Parsimony
Learning by mistakes

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Weshler IQ test took over the

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Stanford and Binet IQ test in popularity

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Weschler developed this IQ test (Weschler adult intelligence scale) to

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Test/screen army recruits

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Each Weschler IQ test yields how many broad scores?

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3: verbal, performance and overall score

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Weschler believed that IQ involved

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Much more than performance on his tests

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Structure of intelligence is referred to as a

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Factor analytic approach

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In early days structure of intelligence was measured using

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Factor analysis

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Spearman proposed the single general factor called

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Spearmans g

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Underlying spearmans g is the theory that underlying all tests on mental ability is

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A general single factor - single type of mental ability

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Is there a single cognitive ability that dictates all performance on mental tasks - comes from

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Spearmans g

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Thurston expanded on spearmans g and added .......more factors

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7

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What are thurstons first 4 primary mental abilities

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Verbal comprehension Verbal fluency Inductive reasoning Spatial visualisation

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What the the final 3 of thurstons primary mental abilities

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Number Memory Perceptual speed

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Thurston believed ones overall intellectual profile was based on

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The seven primary mental abilities

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Thurstons 7 primary mental abilities are

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Independent of each other combine to create each persons individual intellectual profile

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Guildfords model of intelligence rejected due to

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It being too complex with over 150 factors!!!

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Meta analysis is a

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Statistical technique - (a level above analysis) take existing data collapse them and re-analyse them

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By meta analysis Carroll identified

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3 stratas

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Carrolls 3 stratum are

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1. Narrow specific abilities (spelling) 2. General abilities 3. Single general intelligence (ie spearmans g)

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Good thing about carrolls strartum

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Integrates a large body of literature

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Gardners multiple intelligences proses that

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Intelligence is not a single unitary construct. 7 diff intelligences

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Gardner devised 7 intelligences. They are.

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``` Linguistic Logical-mathematical Spatial Musical Bodily kinesthetic Intrapersonal Interpersonal ```

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Gardener believes you can't improve one intelligence by

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Teaching them another. Ie improve maths by teaching them music

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Gardner believes that each intelligences needs to be

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Taught individually

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Sternberg's triachic intelligence theory is that

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Intelligence consists of 3 abilities

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Sternberg's 3 intelligence abilities

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Analytical thinking Creative thinking Practical thinking

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Sternberg's creative thinking is also called

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Experiential intelligence

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Sternberg's intelligence refers to our ability

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To solve problems that require us to think about it and it's elements in a new way. Inventing, designing, creating

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Analytical thinking refers to

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Mathematical problems, statistics,

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Practical thinking is also referred to as

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Contextual intelligence

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Practical thinking

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Applying knowledge to everyday situations

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Componential intelligence is defined as

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Ability to think abstractly, process info effectively

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Experiential intelligence is defined as

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Ability to formulate new ideas, combine seemingly unrelated facts/info

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Contextual intelligence is defined as

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Ability to adapt to changing environment conditions

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Identical twins raised apart still have

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High correlation between IQ scores!

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Which influences IQ more? Genetics or environment

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They both play a role. However genetics stronger

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Intelligence results from a complex interaction of

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Genetics, physical health, range of socio/cultural variables

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Three things impacting on intelligence

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Genetics Health Socioeconomic status

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Two main theoretical categories of emotional intelligence

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Mayer & salovery: focus on emotions only | Goleman & bar-on: include other factors (personality - resilience, agreeableness, stability)

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Goleman proposes 5 components of emotional intelligence:

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``` Knowing our own emotions Managing our own emotions Motivating ourselves Recognising others emotions Handling relationships: interpersonal intelligence ```

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Tests of emotional intelligence are only measured by

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Self-report

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Two broad schools of emotional measurement

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Self report scales | Msceite

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Msceit tests are the

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Best tests available to test emotional intelligence

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Msceit tests were formed by

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Tests of 1000s of population and by experts in the area to come up with performance based scores