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berate
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to scold; rebuke:
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Aptitude
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The capacity to learn
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ingenious
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cleverly inventive or resourceful:
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IQ
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mental over chronological times 100
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Intelligence Quotient
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William Stern, IQ=mental age/chronological age *100
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apprehension
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anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil.
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propensity
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a natural inclination or tendency:
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intelligence
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mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt new situations
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factor analysis
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a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score.
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Emotional Intelligence
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Also supporting the multiple intelligence theory is the existance of emotional intelligence - the ability to manage, express, understand, and perceive emotions. People with high emotional intelligence do better in social situations and thus are more successful in careers, marriages, and parenting. This EI is independent, if not negatively correlated, with academic intelligence.
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Who believed in multiple intelligences?
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Howard Gardner
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Howard Gardner
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7 multiple intelligences: linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal and naturalistic added later to make 8, critics say that there is diff between talent and intellifence and ability does not equal intelligence, also some skills are more critical
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authenticity
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the quality of being authentic; genuineness.
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complement
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something that completes or makes perfect:
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inane
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lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly:
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stereotype threat
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people's perceived risk they they might do something that support an unfavorable stereotype about their group.
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Stanford-Binet
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the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test.
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reliability
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extent to which a test yields consistent results; as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting
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validity
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extent that test measures what its supposed to
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Down Syndrome
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A condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup
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Mental Age
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a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8.
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Valididy
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Test measures what it is supposed to
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Multiple Intelligences
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Different domains in of intellectual skill.
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deplete
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to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of:
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fatuous
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foolish or inane, esp. in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.
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crystallized intelligence
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acquired skills and knowledge and the application of that knowledge to the specific content of the person's experience.
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intelligence test
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a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others using numerical scores
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Normal Curve
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Is a bell-shaped the represents the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores lie near the average and fewer near the extremes
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mental retardation
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a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound
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Savant Syndrome
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condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill (computation, music, drawing)
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Three-stratum Theory of Intelligence
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Carroll's model of intelligence, including g at the top of the hierarchy, right moderately general abilities in the middle, and many specific processes at the bottom
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coroner
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an officer, as of a county or municipality, whose chief function is to investigate by inquest, as before a jury, any death not clearly resulting from natural causes.
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corpulent
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large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat.
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Aptitude Test
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a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn
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telegraphic speech
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early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram - "go car" - using mostly nouns and verbs.
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intelligence quotient (IQ)
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defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ = ma/ca × 100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
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Intellectual Development
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a "dull" child should perform as a typically younger child and a "bright" child should perform as a typically older child
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Standard Deviation
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A measure of the variability of scores in a distribution; in a normal distribution, 68% of scores fall within 1 sd of the mean and 95% of scores fall within 2 sd
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Eugenics Movement
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This was the idea that the best humans should be selected for breeding and one of the criteria used was intelligence.
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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Is the most widely used intelligence test. It is individually administered, contains 11 subtests, and yields separate verbal and performance intelligence scores, as well as an overall intelligence score.
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Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon
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French psychologists who developed a test to identify children in need of special classes in France, published first useful test of general mental ability, believed in mental age, test consisted of reasoning and problem solving questions that might predict school achievement and claimed that intelligence was not entirely inborn
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Wechsier Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
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the WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.
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