Module 4 (Chapter 10)

Question 1

Intelligence Test

Answer 1

Mean to measure intelligence

Question 2

Intelligence

Answer 2

A sociologically constructed concept - the ability to acquire knowledge, think and reason effectively and deal adaptively with the environment

Question 3

General Intelligence

Answer 3

G-Factor - the core of intelligence - psychometric prespective

Question 4

Factor Analysis

Answer 4

Statistical technique - reduces large number of measures to a smaller number of factors/clusters - each cluster has variables that are highly correlated with each but less correlated with other clusters.

Question 5

Savant Syndrome

Answer 5

People with various developmental disorders and having an amazing ability and talent

Question 6

Creativity

Answer 6

the use of imagination or original ideas

Question 7

Emotional Intelligence

Answer 7

Ability to read and respond to other’s emotions, motivate, control, and regulate one’s own emotions

Question 8

Mental Age

Answer 8

Alfred Binet - the mental level you preform at according to your age (if an 8 year old preforms that same as 10 yr old, has 10 year old mental age)

Question 9

Standford-Binet

Answer 9

Lewis Terman - rewrote and improved Alfred Binet’s tests for American culture

Question 10

Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

Answer 10

William Stern - Ratio of Mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 ([mental age/chronological age]x100) ([10/8]x100=125)

Question 11

Achievement test

Answer 11

Assess what people have already learned so far in life

Question 11

Achievement test

Answer 11

Assess what people have already learned so far in life

Question 12

Aptitude Test

Answer 12

Predict a person’s future preformance; capacity to learn; difficult to design test

Question 13

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Answer 13

Intelligence test for adults with verbal and nonverbal intellectual skills. - 1939 - David Wechsler

Question 14

Standardization

Answer 14

2 meanings Development of norms and Rigorously controlled testing procedure

Question 15

Normal Curve

Answer 15

Probability of distribution that is symmetric of the mean

Question 16

Reliability

Answer 16

Consistency of measuerment - Consistency overtime and scores assigned by different examiners

Question 17

Validity

Answer 17

how well the test measures what it was designed to measure

Question 18

Construct Validity

Answer 18

successfully measures the psychological construct it is designed to measure, indicated by relations between test scores and other behaviours it should be related too

Question 19

Content Validity

Answer 19

the items on a test measure all the knowledge or skill that are assumed to underlie the construct of interest

Question 20

Predictive Validity

Answer 20

The ability for a test/measurement to predict future outcome

Question 21

Intellectual Disability

Answer 21

Mild, moderate, severe and profound - limits to a person’s ability to learn and function in daily life. - lower end of IQ

Question 22

Down syndrome

Answer 22

An individual has extra chromosome - genetic disorder

Question 23

Stereotype Threat

Answer 23

A socially premised psychological threat, in situation/doing something where a negative stereotype about group applies

Question 24

Define Intelligence

Answer 24

- A socially constructed concept - ability to acquire knowledge, think and reason effectively and adapt to environmental situations

Question 25

Explain Triarchic theory of Intelligence

Answer 25

intelligence is composed of three parts - practical, cognitive, and analytical - Practical = ability to cope with everyday commands - Analytical = academic problem-solving and computations - Cognitive = inventing/imagining solution to problem/situation (Robert Sternberg)

Question 26

Identify the difference between intelligence theories

Answer 26

Spearmans two-factor (g-factor) Sternberg Triarchic Theory Gardner's Multiple Intelligence theory Caroll's 3 Stratum Fluid and Crystallized intelligence

Question 27

Explain Emotional Intelligence

Answer 27

Abillity to read and and respond to other's emotions as well as control, recognize, and be aware of your own emotions

Question 28

Explain how intelligence test's were invented

Answer 28

Alfred Binet coined Mental Age, and with it created the first intelligence test. William Stern expanded on Binet's mental age creating the intelligence quotient (IQ) using mental age divided by chronological age times by 100. Then Terman expanded on them more and translated them into engl and western culture. Wechsler created a verbal and non-verbal intelligence from Termans which has been revised and still used today.

Question 29

Describe the history of the use of IQ tests

Answer 29

Alfred Binet used them to for struggling children in schools, Used to get into military

Question 30

Describe purpose and benefits of intelligence testing

Answer 30

Measuring reasoning and problem solving abilities, they can provide important information about someones intellectual development

Question 31

Describe how genetics and environment affect intelligence

Answer 31

Heritability coefficents = 0.5-0.7 environment accounts for 30-50% of IQ variations Nurtrients, stimulating environment

Question 32

explain relationship between IQ scores and socioeconomic status

Answer 32

Higher IQ preform better at job, better income correlates 0.5-0.7 with socioeconomic status that people attain

Question 33

Describe the difference between a learning disability and developmental disorder

Answer 33

Learning disabilites are within developmental disorders, developmental disorders also include ADHD, autism, down syndrome. Learning Disabilites include dyslexia...