Aging of Intelligence
Aidan's mental health/emotional intelligence gets progressively ____ throughout the school year.
what is worse?
This person invented the color coded ticket system for senior hot lunch, thereby making it less psychologically taxing.
Who is Jacob Edward Boon?
This person thinks they are the most emotionally intelligent person in the senior class.
Who is Kathrine Hall Vaughan?
Mr. Boon is extremely intelligent therefore his Son ____ will inherit his intelligence.
Who is Joel Edward Boon?
The most beautiful man at Whitman
Who is Mr. George?
the _____ of mental ability with age is part of the general [aging] process of the organism as a whole
what is decline?
This person and his colleagues conducted longitudinal studies of intelligence in Scotland.
Who is Ian Deary?
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age
What is crystallized intelligence?
The proportion of variation among individuals that can be attributed to genes.
What is Heritability?
Exams covering what you have learned in this course
What are achievement test?
Studies comparing people of different ages at the same point in time.
What is Cross-sectional research?
This person was commissioned by the French government to design fair and unbiased intelligence tests to administer to French schoolchildren.
Who is Alfred Binet?
Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly;tends to decrease with age, especially during late adulthood
What is fluid intelligence?
Test scores of identical twins raised apart are slightly less similar (though still very highly ____)
What is correlated?
A college entrance exam, which seeks to predict your ability to do college work
What is an aptitude test?
Studies that follow and retest the same people over time.
What are Longitudinal studies?
This person concluded that “the decline of mental ability with age is part of the general [aging] process of the organism as a whole.”
Who is David Wechsler?
Although aging adults lose many types of intelligence, they gain _____ and _____.
What are Vocabulary and knowledge?
Correlation is not _____
What is causation?
Defined as whatever intelligence tests measure, which has tended to be school smarts.
What is Intelligence?
The results of a study conducted in 1982 examining intelligence longitudinally.
What is remains stable until late in life?
This person identified eight relatively independent intelligences, including the verbal and mathematical aptitudes assessed by standardized tests.
Who is Howard Gardner?
Six of Howard Gardner's types of intelligence
What are Musical, visual-spatial, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and verbal-linguistic intelligence?
200 researchers pooled their data and concluded that ___ only accounted for 2% of the differences in educational achievement.
What is gene variations?
____ evidence supports the idea that normal, healthy children can be molded into geniuses by growing up in an exceptionally enriched environment.
What is NO?