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General intelligence (g) |
Believed to be a single quantity that predicts performance on all intellectual tasks. |
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Fluid intelligence |
Ability to think on the spot. |
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Crystallized intelligence |
Factual knowledge of the world. |
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Primary mental abilities |
Seven abilities said by Thurstone to be crucial to intelligence. |
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Three-stratum theory of intelligence |
Carroll's model of intelligence where top of hierarchy is "g", the middle is 8 moderately general abilities, and bottom is many specific processes. |
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Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) |
Widely used test used to measure the intelligence of children age 6 and up. |
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Intelligence quotient (IQ) |
A summary measure used to indicate a child's intelligence relative to that of other children of the same age. |
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Normal distribution |
Pattern of data where scores fall symmetrically around a mean value. |
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Standard deviation |
A measure of the variability of scores in a distribution. |
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Evocative effects |
When a child's behavior (phenotype) elicits particular behavior from parents. |
Scarr's gene-environment interactions |
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HOME scale |
Measures quality and quantity of care and age-appropriate child stimulation. Predicts intelligence. |
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Flynn effect |
The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the past 75 years in many countries. |
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Multiple intelligence theory (Gardner) |
Theory of intellect based on the view that people possess at least 8 types of intelligence. |
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Theory of successful intelligence (Sternberg) |
Theory of intellect based on the view that intelligence is the ability to achieve success in life. |
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Phonemic awareness |
Ability to identify component sounds within words. Birth to 1st grade. |
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Phonological recoding |
Ability to translate letters into sounds and to blend sounds into words. 1st and 2nd grades. |
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Visually based retrieval |
Proceeding directly from the visual form of a word to its meaning. |
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Strategy choice process |
Procedure for selecting among alternative ways of solving problems. |
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Gesture-speech mismatches |
When a child shows appropriate gesture but inappropriate math procedure. |
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Comprehension monitoring |
Process of keeping track of one's understanding of a verbal description or text. |
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