unit 8: intelligence

Question 1

a bar graph depicting a frequency distribution

Answer 1

histogram

Question 2

most frequenty occuring scores ina distribution

Answer 2

mode

Question 3

avergae of a distribution, obtained by adding the scores and dividing by the number of scores

Answer 3

mean

Question 4

middle score in a distribution

Answer 4

median

Question 5

representation of scores that lack symetry around the average value

Answer 5

skewed distribution

Question 6

tail right

Answer 6

pos skew

Question 7

tail left

Answer 7

neg skew

Question 8

computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score

Answer 8

standard deviation

Question 9

numerical data that allows one to generalize

Answer 9

inferential statistics

Question 10

statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occured by chance- doesn’t indicate importance

Answer 10

statistical significance

Question 11

general intelligence factor that, according to spearman, underlines specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test

Answer 11

general intelligence

Question 12

statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related facotrs on a test

Answer 12

factor analysis

Question 13

tested people on several scales

Answer 13

LL thurstone

Question 14

condition in which a person otherwize limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill

Answer 14

savant syndrome

Question 15

argued that there are 8/9 forms of intelligence and did a study on it

Answer 15

gardner

Question 16

passion and perseverance in the pursuit of longterm goals

Answer 16

grit

Question 17

proposed a triatrich theory of intelligence

Answer 17

sternberg

Question 18

proposed the idea of social intelligence

Answer 18

edward throndike

Question 19

ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions

Answer 19

emotional intelligence

Question 20

devised mental age

Answer 20

binet

Question 21

measure of intelligence test performance devised by binet, chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance

Answer 21

mental age

Question 22

widely used american revision of binet’s test (terman)

Answer 22

stanford binet

Question 23

defined originally as ratio of mental age to chronological age x100

Answer 23

IQ

Question 24

used iq tests to aid eugenics

Answer 24

terman

Question 25

most widely used intelligence test containing verbal and performance tests

Answer 25

WAIS

Question 26

defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group

Answer 26

standardization

Question 27

extent to which a test yeilds consistent results, as assesed by consistency scores on 2 halves of the test

Answer 27

reliability

Question 28

extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to

Answer 28

validity

Question 29

extent to which a test smaples the behaviro that is of interest

Answer 29

content validity

Question 30

success that a test predicts the behavior it was designed to; assesed by computing correlation and criterion

Answer 30

predicitve validity

Question 31

group of ppl from a given time period

Answer 31

cohort

Question 32

accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; increase with age

Answer 32

crystallized intelligence

Question 33

ability to reason speedily and abstractly, decreases in late adulthood

Answer 33

fluid intelligence

Question 34

condition of limited mental ability, indicated intelligence score of 70 or below

Answer 34

intellectual disability

Question 35

condition of mild to severe intellectual disability and associated with physical disorders caused by extra copy of chromosome 21

Answer 35

down syndrome

Question 36

proportion of variation among individulas that we can attribute to genes

Answer 36

heritability

Question 37

self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype

Answer 37

stereotype threat