Theories & Theorists
This psychologist believed that everyone has one single level of intelligence, which he of course called g.
Who is Charles Spearman?
What is the Stanford-Binet test?
This letter stands for the one singular, all encompassing intelligence found by Spearman
What is g?
This is the motivation to keep trying something until you get it right, the belief in being able to find a solution eventually.
What is grit?
One intelligence was not enough for this theorist; he created 8 all by himself!
These tests measure a person's capacity to do things in the future, rather than just what they know at the moment about facts.
What are aptitude tests?
This form of intelligence shows the ability to form new approaches to problems and think around them while contemplating a solution, not just facts and figures.
What is Gf? (Fluid Intelligence)
Finding this is easy: you just divide mental age by chronological age, and multiply by 100. Simple.
What is Intelligence Quotient? (IQ)
These 3 researchers lent their names to the theory that everyone has varying levels of Gc and Gf.
Who are Cattle-Horn-Carroll?
This guy created the most commonly given test today, known as the WAIS for adults (and the WISC for kids).
Who is Weschler?
This measure of intelligence can be found in people who easily know another's feelings and can sympathize with them.
This is a calcified way of looking at things, where a person can't come up with new and novel ideas, cant' see past the normal way things are.
Oh, I know him! He's the French guy who came up with a general test for all Parisian kids to take to see which should be in school programs!
Who is Alfred Binet?
An IQ test (like the Stanford-Binet) gives results compared to a standard, which is contrasted with chronological age.
What is Mental Age?
This measure of intelligence gets better as you age, unlike many other forms of intelligence, which mostly decline in adulthood.
What is Gc? (Crystalized Intelligence)
Symptoms of this are having extremely high intelligence in one area, while lacking in many other areas.
What is Savant Syndrome?
LL Thurstone wouldn't believe that we have only one potential intelligence, he found at least 7. So, he became the father of this idea, that we can look at the parts of a personality and determine their individual intelligences
What is factor analysis?
Every couple of years, IQ tests need to be recallibrated to take this phenomenon into account.
What is the Flynn Effect?
This the newest form of Multiple Intelligences, added in 2000, used to understand big picture ideas.
What is Existential Intelligence?
To create a truly great test of intelligence, it needs to have these two factors, meaning it is testing what it needs to test and it repeats its scores over and over
What is reliability and validity?