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Intelligence is the ability to ____ and ____ to the environment by using a combination of _____ abilities and _____ abilities
understand
adapt
inherited
learned
Constructed the first workable intelligence test in the early 1900's
Alfred Binet
Name Binet's 4 elements of intelligence
1. Direction
2. Adaptability
3. Comprehension
4. Self-evaluation
The Stanford-Binet test today has more emphasis on several types of ____ ______, such as _____ _____ and ______
reasoning processes
critical thinking
analysis
Name the formula for calculating IQ
(mental age / chronological age) x 100
An IQ of 130 or above is ___ _____
very superior
An IQ of 120-129 is _____
superior
An IQ of 110-119 is ___ _____
high average
An IQ of 90-109 is ____
average
An IQ of 80-89 is ___ _____
low average
An IQ of 70-79 is ____
borderline
An IQ of 69 or below is ___ _____
mentally retarded
Psychologist who worked with derelicts; wanted to develop a program to help them find jobs and get out of the mess they were in, so he needed a measure of their real-world intelligence
David Wechsler
IQ test items that rely heavily on word comprehension and usage
Verbal scale
IQ test items that try to bypass verbal material and focus on problem-solving without words
Performance scale
An intelligence test for adults that provides three IQs: verbal, performance, and full-scale (total)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
An intelligence test for children aged 6-16 that provides three IQs: verbal, performance, and full-scale (total)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
Theory that intelligence is made up of seven abilities
Theory of multiple intelligences
Creator of the theory of multiple intelligences
Howard Gardner
Name the 7 abilities of the theory of multiple intelligences
Language, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, musical, bodily movement, intrapersonal, and interpersonal
IQ is ____ ______ to job success
indirectly related
___ plays an important part in basic intellectual potential (accounts for __%)
Heredity
50%
____ sets up certain limits, and ___ and ____ work within those limits
Inheritance
effort
environment
___ has built in a sequence of ___ ______ that the child follows, and training or stimulation cannot ____ ____ the sequence of development
Nature
mental development
speed up
The benefit to individual intelligence tests is that there is more ____ for the examiner to ____ the test taker and their _____
opportunity
understand
reasoning
A drawback of individual intelligence tests is that they are ____
expensive
Group intelligence tests are highly ____
verbal
The unfair measurement of cultural groups' abilities
Cultural bias
Did a study to find out what bright children were really like
Lewis Terman
Retardation from known physical defects' most common causes are ___ of ___, ___ ____, and _____ to ___ _____
lack of oxygen
extreme malnutrition
exposure to toxic chemicals
The practice of keeping children with disabilities in regular academic classrooms
Inclusion
Condition in which a person with below-normal mental capacity possesses a special talent or mental ability to an extremely high degree
Savant syndrome
The mental processes that result in original, workable ideas
Creativity
The result of unusual thinking
Invention
A tendency to solve problems in the same way over and over
Set
To come up with unusual, unexpected ideas; to use something in a way different from the way in which it is normally used
Break set
Tests of creativity try to measure the _____ but _____
unexpected
possible
Test designed for schools to give kids
Otis Lenin
Swiss psychologist who studied cognitive development
Jean Piaget
The ways in which thinking and reasoning grow and change
Cognitive development
Piaget's term for the awareness that specific objects are real and exist all by themselves
Object permanence
Piaget's first stage of child development, from birth to about 2 years old, in which knowledge is tied to movement and objects in the environment
Sensorimotor stage
In this stage, objects are not "permanent" - child has not yet formed the concept of object permanence
Sensorimotor stage
Piaget's second stage of child development, from 2 to about 7 years old, in which children acquire language and the ability to use symbols but are still not capable of logical thought
Preoperational stage
In this stage, children know that things can be permanent but cannot understand either reversibility or conservation
Preoperational stage
In this stage, language and vocabulary develop rapidly, and the child begins to notice difference between people and objects in the environment
Preoperational stage
In this stage, the child is unable to change places with someone else and see things from another point of view
Preoperational stage
Piaget's term for the idea that a relationship that goes in one direction can go in the other direction as well
Reversibility
Piaget's term for the idea that some of an object's characteristics can be chantged while others remain the same
Conservation
"Changing shape does not change volume" is an example of _____
conservation
Piaget's third stage of child development, from about 7 to 11 years old, in which the child understands that there is a real world with real objects, which exist apart from the child and which can be manipulated
Concrete operations stage
At the beginning of this stage, children have trouble seeing objects as having mrore than one dimension at the same time
Concrete operations stage
In this stage, children look at things in black-and-white
Concrete operations stage
Piaget's fourth stage of child development, beginning at about 11 years old, in which the ability to deal with the highly symbolic and abstract thoughts found in logic, math, philosophy, and ethics begins to appear
Formal operations stage
In this stage, one has the highest level of cognitive development
Formal operations stage
This stage is not free of cultural influences
Formal operations stage
In this stage, a child uses symbols and language to represent the world
Preoperational stage
In this stage, a child grasps the concepts of past, present, and future; they also master the concept of conservation of a number
Preoperational stage
In this stage, a child learns measurement, class and set relations, and concepts of space
Concrete operations stage
In this stage, a child understands the concept of conservation of weight and area
Concrete operations stage
In this stage, a child has deductive thought - basic logic and reasoning; they also master reversibility, decentration, and conservation
Concrete operations stage
In this stage, a child starts to think abstractly, reason, and become more systematic in thinking
Formal operations stage
In this stage, a child forms concepts by organizing facts and events by common qualities
Formal operations stage
In this stage, a child begins to approach problem-solving in a mature fashion
Formal operations stage
In this stage, a child has inductive thought
Formal operations stage
The focus one one problem and not several
Centration
The inability to vision reversing action
Irreversability
The inability to take another perspective
Ego centrism
Name 3 reasons (all one-word) why children in certain stages do not understand conservation
Centration, irreversability, and ego-centrism
A person with ___ mental retardation is an educable mentally handicapped person
mild
A person with ___ mental retardation is a trainable mentally handicapped person
moderate
A person with ___ mental retardation is considered to be custodial
severe
Most (80% of) mentally handicapped people have ___ mental retardation
mild
People with a ____ degree of mental retardation can learn to talk and communicate but need guidance and are unlikely to progress beyond the 2nd grade level in academic subjects
moderate
The lowest degree of mental retardation
Profound
A surgically correctable spinal defect that can also come with mental handicaps
Spina Difada
When water gets in one's head or brain; is preventable
Hydrocephalis
Rubella = ____
measles
Causes blindness and deafness and makes the body unable to metabolize protein (which causes a chemical and nutritional imbalance)
PKU disorder
The degree of mentally handicapped behavior ranges from none to severe; it is fixable if caught early
PKU disorder
(3 types) Causes severe retardation and some facial and body deformation, but it is fixable and preventable if caught early
Venearal disease/Syphillis/STDs
This is caused by lack of oxygen to the brain; the most common cause is near-drowning, but it can also be caused by a viral infection during pregnancy; sometimes people with this can have the "droopy eye"/"closed eye"
Oxycephalis
A law that states parents' rights with their mentally handicapped children
Law 94-142
In Law 94-142, a parent can ___ or ___ permission for their child to be ____ evaluated or placed in a ____ ____ program
allow
deny
individually
special education
In Law 94-142, parents have the right to a due process hearing before an impartial hearing officer to ____ major ____ with the school about their child's program
resolve
disagreements
In Law 94-142, a parent can request the ___ of ____ or ____ information from their child's records and to include their own statement
removal
inaccurate
misleading
In Law 94-142, parents have the right to have their child educated with _____ _____ children to the maximum extent appropriate
non-special education
People with this mental handicap have 47 chromosomes instead of 46, and most are moderately handicapped
Downs Syndrome
Chances of your child having a birth defect increase greatly if you're having a baby when you're over ___ ___
age 40
When the child doesn't grow; is a thyroid gland problem - thyroid effects growth rate and body size, and the thyroid gland depends on having iodine in the diet
Cretenism
A "____" is actually called a ______, and it is a severe handicap where one has a small head; the cause is a recessive gene
"Pinhead"
Microcephalic
Problems with this causes extreme facial distortion, is fatal, and the longer one has it, the more severe the handicap becomes
Pituitary gland
This is the master gland - it runs all the others in the body; it is the central headquarters of the brain
Pituitary gland
STDs are also known as ___ diseases
venereal
A disease that can cause mental handicaps if one had the disease early in life
Rheumatic Fever
If a mother gets ___ or a ____ during pregnancy, the child could have a mental handicap
measles
virus
This results in mental handicaps, and its cause is because the mother's blood can be toxic to her baby
Blood match/compatibility - RH factor
The less specific (more general) causes of mental handicaps are ____ conditions, problems ____ pregnancy, problems ___ birth, problems ___ birth, and ____/cultural _____
genetic
during
at
after
poverty
deprivation
The #1 cause of brain damage
Car accidents
The 2 kids we watched videos on, Genie and Victor,
's intelligence grew and grew but ____ before reaching "normal" level
plateaued
In this level of mental retardation, people have physical problems, usually from a disease, and can sometimes take care of themselves
Moderate mental retardation
The psychologist who was asked to find students who excelled at school and who would be placed in special programs
Binet
Different ____ define ____ differently, and ___ scores must be viewed ___ that context
cultures
intelligence
IQ
within
___ an ___ ____ is most likely to lead to creativity
Breaking an old set
Intelligence is relative to ____ within your ___ ____
others
subject description
Intelligence testing is basically asking "Do you think __ ___ ___ or ___ ____ other people in your group?"
as well as
better than
Growth in this stage takes place most rapidly and depends on health, diet, and activity; as much as 1/3 of intelligence is present
Sensorimotor stage
In this stage, intelligence narrows; school/education, experience, and modeling are key
Childhood functional development - Concrete stage
In this stage, there is some development, and lifestyle/activity, job, interests/aspirations, motivation, health, and diet are important
Adulthood - refinement
A high IQ stays high for a ___ time and develops ____
long
quickly
A low IQ stays where it is for a ___ time and develops ____
short
slowly
The test that proved the existence of cultural bias in intelligence testing
Semantic Perception and Linguistic Intelligence Battery (SPLIB) test
Means the meaning of a word
Semantic
HI LYDIA I LURVE YOU
hehe
There are > or = to ___ different components of intelligence
100
Every behavior involves > or = to ___ components of intelligence
3
Name the 3 very broad components involved with the process of intelligence
Receive, interpret, act
This component of intelligence is recall/storage and is one for all the senses - can be long, short, photographic, etc
Memory
This component of intelligence has to do with problem-solving and inductive/deductive thought
Logic/Reasoning
This component of intelligence is the 2nd step - the interpretation component; is based on experience
Perception
This component of intelligence is a quantitative element
Number
This component of intelligence is conceptual - meanings of ideas
Verbal
This component of intelligence is based on speed/processing
Fluency
This component of intelligence has to do with distances, volumes, and speeds
Spatial
This component of intelligence takes on many forms and is defined by unique thought
Creativity
One type of intelligence is the ability to ___ and ___ information relative to how ____ _____ and ____ information
acquire
apply
others
acquire
apply
One type of intelligence is a combination of ____ ____/characteristics that enable one to ____/____ in one's environment
mental traits
survive/function
One type of intelligence is the ability to ____ _____ - perception
interpret stimuli
One type of intelligence is the ability to ____ to both ___ and ____ stimuli (___)
adapt
old
new
change
One type of intelligence is behavior that is _____ (awareness), ______ (goal-directed), _____, and ______ (moral, value)
conscious
purposeful
rational
constructive
Intelligence is generally defined as being constructive, but it can sometimes be ____
destructive
One type of intelligence is a collection of ___ or ____ working together to ___ _____
skills
behaviors
process information
One type of intelligence is the product of ____
experience
One type of intelligence is the global ability to ____ ______ and ____ with the _____
act purposefully
deal
environment
One type of intelligence is the ability to ____, ____, and ____
judge
understand
reason
Intelligence is ____, not ____
developed
inborn
IQ is _____; it is the ____ one is ____ with
inborn
potential
born
When one adjusts/adapts their views when knowledge is acquired or for some other reason
Accommodation
When one associates things based on similarities
Assimilation
Psychologist who indentified core psychological needs, including achievement, affiliation, and power
Murray
Psychologist who helped complete the report "Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler"
Murray
Psychologist who is kind-of the "cornerstone" of intelligence definitions and whatnot
Piaget
When a test measures what it is supposed to measure, it is ____
valid
A salesperson would be high in this intelligence
Interpersonal
Meaures potential; IQ tests are these
Aptitude tests