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40 Cards in this Set
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Spearman |
General intelligence. One general intelligence that is at the heart of everything somebody does. |
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Mental abilities are like |
Physical abilities (maybe in general maybe just according to spearman) |
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Spearman found distinct abilities that correlate enough to define |
Small general intelligence factor |
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Gardner |
Proposed reletively independent intelligences. |
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8 relatively independent intelligences |
Naturalistic, linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, logical, muiscal, body kinsethic, spacial. |
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Savant syndrome |
Evidence of multiple intelligrnce, super smart in one but lacking in others. Usually autistic. |
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Matt savage |
Kid with savant syndrome. Jazz savant. Autistic |
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Stenberg |
Three intelligences |
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What are the three intelligences |
Analytical, creative, practical |
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G factors predict |
Performance on various complex tasks |
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Success has two ingredients |
Ability and motivation |
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Ten year rule |
Takes ten years to become a genius at something |
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Emotional inteligence |
Percieving, understanding, managing, and using emotions |
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Emotional intelligent people |
Socially and self aware. Assess others emotions and provide appropriate support. |
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Where and why intelligence tests created |
20th century France to place kids in classes |
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Intelligence test |
Method to assess ones mental aptitudes and comparing them woth those of others using numerical scores |
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Aptitude test |
A test designed to predict a person's future performance or capasity to learn |
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Achievement test |
A test designed to assess what a person has learned |
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Alfred binet |
Predict school acheivement |
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Assumed that all children would follow the same course but |
Some would develop more rapidly |
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Used intelligence test to |
Predict how well kids would do in school |
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Binets test measured |
Each child's mental age |
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Lewis terman |
Adapted binets test for use in California. |
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Revisión of binets test called |
Stanford binet intelligence test |
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IQ, is no longer computed. Now the average |
Performance of others of same age computed |
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Wechsler adult intelligence test |
Most widely used intelligence test today |
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Normal curve |
Test needs to follow to be reliable |
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Standardization |
Defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores in comparison with performance of pretested group |
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Reliability |
Extent of tests consistancy. Has normal curve |
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Validity |
The extent the test measures what it's supposed to measure |
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Low extreme intelligence |
70 and below. Difficult to adapt to life demands |
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High extreme |
Children with IQ over 135. Healthy well adjusted, usually successful academically |
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Cross sectional |
Study in which people of different times/ages are compared with one another |
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Longitudinal study |
Research in which people are studied and retested over a long period of time |
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Intelligent people live longer |
Better access to resources Encourages healthy lifestyles |
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Prenatal events or early childhood illnesses |
Influence intelligence and health |
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A well wired body |
Fast reaction speeds, foster intelligence and longer life |
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Johnson study |
Stability of intelligence independent of life circumstance |
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Crystallized intelligence |
Accumulated knowledge, as reflected in vocabulary and word powered tests. Increases as we age |
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Fluid intelligence |
Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly, tends to decrease near late adulthood |
