Flashcards in Psychology - Chapter 9: Intelligence and IQ testing - important concepts Deck (17):
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What type of intelligence is used with we try to solve a puzzle we've never seen for the first time?
Fluid intelligence
2
What is used when computing IQ for adults?
Deviation IQ
3
People with a low level of this may have difficulty maintaining good health behaviours.
Health litteracy
4
IQ distribution tends to follow what type of distribution?
Bell-curve
5
Many advocate for the inclusion of what for intellectual disability?
Gullibility
6
Studies with intact families do not allow us to distinguish what?
Genes from the environment
7
Galton believed that intelligence was related to what?
Sensory ability
8
Intelligence consists of abilities to what?
- Reason abstractly
- Learn to adapt to novel environmental circumstances
- Acquire knowledge
- Benefit from experience
9
At high levels of environmental deprivation, the effects of ________ on intelligence may largely swamp out the effects of ________
environment
genes
10
What is a confound for adoption studies?
Selective placement
11
Environmental influences to intelligence include what?
Social environments and the biological environment
12
Most content that ________ influences are responsible for the Flynn effect.
Environmental
13
What are the possible environmental influences responsible for the Flynn effect?
1 - increased test sophistication
2 - Increased complexity of the modern world
3 - Better nutrition
4 - Changes at home and school
14
Do men have higher IQs, on average, than women?
no
15
Why can't we use race as a basis for inferring any given person's IQ?
1 - Science cannot answer claims of racial superiority (can determine origin of racial differences only)
2 - IQ differences between races are narrowing
3 - Variability within races > variability among races
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Most evidence suggests that racial differences in IQ are largely or entirely ________ in origin.
Environmental
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