Thinking
Mental groupings organized to think about events objects and people in our world.
What are Concepts?
Our way of combining words to communicate meaning.
What is Language?
The term coined by Charles Spearman that represents Intelligence in Humans.
What is General intelligence or the "G" factor
Intelligence was once measured by measuring the size, shape, and bumps on an individuals head.
What is True.
An individual's performance on a test relative to a pretested group is a process called _______________.
What is standardization?
An Apple is ______________ , or a mental image that best represents the category of fruit.
What is a Prototype?
A stage of Language development reached by most infants, or Adults after a heavy evening of alcoholic consumption
What is Babbling
A term used to identify an individual who possesses an extraordinary mental ability.
What is a Savant.
Intelligence varies greatly by gender, culture, and racial groups.
What is False
Differences in intelligence test scores between different racial or cultural groups can often be attributed to this flaw in test development.
What is Bias, or Cultrual Bias
A slow and laborious mental strategy for problem solving that will eventually arrive at the correct solution
What is Trial and Error?
The area of the brain responsible for fluid language expression.
What is Broca's area?
The most popular test for intelligence in adults?
What is The WAIS or Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale?
Wernicke's aphasia is characterized by broken slowed speech.
What is False.
The term that refers to a tests ability to measure what it is supposed to measure.
What is Validity?
A mental shortcut for problem solving that has a chance of quickly arriving at the correct solution.
What is a Heuristic?
The period in childhood up to age 7 where children are able to master language.
What is the critical or Sensitive period?
Comprised of these four abilities.
1. to perceive emotions
2. To understand emotions
3. To manage emotions
4. to use emotions
What is Emotional Intelligence?
If a student takes the same test 5 times and their scores improve each time they take it, the test is said to have High reliability.
What is False
Formally referred to as Mental Retardation
What is Intellectual disability?
The most efficient mental strategy for problem solving that will Always arrive at the correct solution.
What is an algorithm?
Condensed or abbreviated speech in which only the most central words, carrying the highest level of information, are spoken is ________________.
What is Telegraphic speech?
Howard Gardner's would describe a professional athlete as a high percentage of This type of intelligence?
What is bodily kinesthetic?
Heritability refers to the portion of the variation among people in a group that we can assign to genes.
What is true.
This intellectual disability is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21
What is Down Syndrome