Intelligence Flashcards
(28 cards)
Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
Intelligence
Existence of a broad mental capacity that influences performance on cognitive ability measures
people who did well in one area tended also to do well in other areas
G Factor
Spearman
General Intelligence (G)
Condition where a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional skill
Savant Syndrome
Creator:
Multiple Intelligence
People have different types of intelligence
Howard Gardner
People have different types of intelligence
Multiple Intelligence
Creator:
Factor-Analysis
General Intelligence
Spearman
Henry Goddard
The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics
Eugenics
Ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions
Emotional Intelligence
Comprehending social situations
Social Intelligence
Creator:
Triarchic Theory
Robert Sternberg
1916
Widely used American version of Binet’s original intelligence test
Revised by Lewis Terman @Stanford Uni
Used on immigrants and WWI soilders
Stanford-Binet
French physiologist
Theodore Simon + Binet developed intelligence tests
Used test to try to find children w/special needs
Alfred Binet
Revised Binet’s original intelligence test
@Stanford University
Believed intelligence is inherited
Lewis Terman
Academic knowledge
Analytical
A standard measure of an individual’s intelligence level based on psychological tests
IQ
Designed to ask what a person has learned
Ex. chapter tests, unit tests, AP tests
Achievement Test
Designed to predict a person’s future performance
Ex. SAT, ACT
Aptitude Test
Measures or predicts what it is supposed to
Validity
Scores are compared to a pre-tested “standardization group”
Standardization Group
Yields constant results
Two halves of the test
Alternate forms of the test
Restesting
Reliability
Most widely used
Subtest (discrepancy can indicate learning deficiency)
Verbal + non-verbal performance
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test (WAIS) (WAIT)
Most common chromosome disorder
Down Sydrome
Derived the intelligence quotient
Person’s mental age divided by chronological age than multiplied by 100
MA/CA * 100
William Stern
Arts
New Ideas
Creative