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what is intelligence?

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ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

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who is Charles Spearman?

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-he created factor analysis
-created the concept of general intelligence (g)

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what is g factor?

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general intelligence that underlies succesful performance on a wide variety of tasks.

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what is factor analysis?

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statistical procedure that identifies clusters of items on a test

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who is L.L. Thurstone?

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she shifted attention from g-factor onto the concept of seven clusters of primary abilities such as spatial ability, perceptual speed, and verbal comprehension.

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in what way did both Thurstone and Spearman use factor analysis?

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They both used factor analysis to identify clusters of related intelligence abilities.

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who si Satoshi Kanazawa?

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she asserts that intelligence scores DO CORRELATE with ability to solve various novel problems but DO NOT MUCH CORRELATE with individual skills.

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what is savant syndrome?

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condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill,such as computation or drawing.

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how many intelligence that we have based on Howard Gardner?

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eight

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what are the different intelligence based on Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence?

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spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, and naturalist

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what is grit?

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it is the passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals.

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who is robert sternberg?

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-created triarchic theories for both love/attraction and intelligence.

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what are the three components of Sternberg’s triarchic theory about love/attraction?

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-passion, intimacy, and commitment

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what are the three intelligences based on Sternberg?

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-analytical (academic problem-solving) intelligence
-creative intelligence
-practical intelligence

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what is emotional intelligence?

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ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions.

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what are the four components of EQ?

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-perceiving emotions
-understanding emotions
-maganing emotions
-using emotions to enable adaptice or creative thinking

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what is the statistiical information about the connection between brain size and intelligence?

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-there is a +.33 correlation between brain size and intelligence score especially in the frontal/parietal lobes.

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summarize the research findings about the connection between neural processing speed and intelligence.

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+.3 to .5 correlation between intelligence score and the neural processing speed.

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in what year does the French government commissioned Alfred Binet to devise an assessment of intelligence?

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1904

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relationship between mental age and chronological age.

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the idea is that the mental age was the LEVEL PERFORMANCE typically associated with chronological age (ACTUAL AGE).

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what is mental orthopedics?

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this is Binet’s belive that would help children develop their attention span and self-discipline that could improve their intelligence scores.

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who is Lewis Terman?

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-he spread the idea that United State should use IQ test
-revised SIMON-BINET test.

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who is the professor in Stanford that extended the upper end of the test’s range from teenagers to “superior adults”

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Lewis Terman

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how to find IQ? Mental and chronological age?

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-IQ= mental age/chronological age x 100
-M.A/C.A=IQ/100 x m.a/c.a

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define achivement test and give example.
-test designed to assess what a person has learned. -ex.: driver's test
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define aptitude test and give example
-test designed to predict a person's future performance ; capacity to learn -ex.: SAT
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who is David Weschler?
-associated with the IQ tests (WAIS, WISC) -created a test that measured intelligence without complete dependence on verbal ability.
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what is WAIS?
-(WAIS) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale -most widely used intelligence test that contains verbal, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed scores.
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how many subtests does WAIS consists?what are some them?
15; digit span, vocabulary, and object assembly.
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define standardization.
process of making a test uniform or setting it to a specific standard.
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normal curve
distribution of intelligence test scores in the general population forms a bell-shaped pattern.
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what is flynn effect?
rising average intelligence test score over the last century
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why normal curve is important to standardized testing?
it describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes.
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define reliability.
-consistent score result even after retest.
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define validity.
a test that measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
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what is content validity?what is predictive validity?
-content validity is when a test SAMPLES THE BEHAVIOR that is of interest. -predictive validity is the SUCCESS with which a test PREDICTS a behavior it is designed to predict.
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what is cross-section?
when investigator measures the outcome and exposures in the study participants at the same time.
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what is cohort?
group of people that share the same characteristics
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define crystallized intelligence. what happen to it as we age?
-accumulated knowledge as reflected in vocabulary and analogy test. -it increases up to old age.
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define fluid intelligence. what happen as we age?
-ability to reason speedily and abstractly. -decreases beginning in 20s and 30s, slowly up to age 75.
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what is intellectual disability?
a person who has certain limitations in cognitive functioning and skills.
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what is "termites"?
group of gifted children
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what is heritability?
proportion of variation among individual that can be contributed to genes.
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define down syndrome.
a developmental disorder caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
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what is epigenetics?
-study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.
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what is stereotype threat?
a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.
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what skills are girls better than boys?
-spelling -more verbally fluent -better at locating objects -better at detecting emotions -more sensitive to touch, color, and taste
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based on research, boys outperform girls at...
-spatial ability and related mathematics
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define fixedd mindset and growth mindset.
-fixed mindset describes people who see their qualities a fixed traits that cannot change. -growth mindset is a belief that a person's intelligence and abilities can grow and improve with practice.
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define test bias and scientific bias.
test bias is if it detects not only innate differences in intelligence but also performance difference. scientific bias is it hinges on a test's validity ; whether it predict future behavior only for some groups of test-takers.
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what is test-retest and split-half method
test-retest method is taking the same exam after two years to prove reliability. split-half method is dividing the exam into two and comparing the results.
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who created the concept of fluid and crystallized intelligence?
Raymond Cattell
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who collaborated to Alfred Binet in the creation of assessments for French school children?
Theodore Simon
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who is Francis Galton?
-wrote a book called "Heriditary Genius" -examined how exceptional intelligence and cognitive disability runs in families. -invented the concept of percentile ranks and correlation
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he added a performance scale to address non-verbal reasoning skills to IQ tests.
David Weschler
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he believed that sensitivity to high-pitched sounds and reaction time would be a good predictors of IQ.
Francis Galton
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who derived the famous "intelligent quotient" IQ?
Stern
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Summarize Francis Galton's research.
measure human traits, suggests that intelligence was inherited "EUGENICS".
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what are the 4 things that Galton measured?
-reaction time -sensory acuity -muscular power -body proportions
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define construct validity.
IQ test should measure the intended construct of intelligence
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what is criterion-related validty?
the scores of an IQ tests should correlate with other measures of intelligence or academic achievement
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what are the ethics of using IQ tests?
-fairness -informed consent -confidentiality -respect for diversity -professional competence

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