Name that Psychologist
This psychologist conducted a famous longitudinal study of gifted children, and was also a supporter of the eugenics movement in the early 20th century.
Who is Lewis Terman?
This term refers to the phenomenon where test scores have steadily increased over time, perhaps due to better nutrition and education.
What is the Flynn Effect?
The original formula for the intelligence quotient (IQ).
What is mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100?
This number describes the average IQ score.
What is 100?
The term for a problem-solving strategy that involves thinking outside the box to reach multiple novel solutions.
What is divergent thinking?
This psychologist earned the title "father of intelligence testing" when he developed one of the first intelligence tests in France to identify children who would need special education.
Who is Alfred Binet?
This term describes the consistency of test results when a test is repeated.
What is test-retest reliability?
The approximate heritability estimate of intelligence in adulthood?
What is around 50-80%?
A score below this number on an intelligence test may indicate an intellectual disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior.
What is 70?
The name of the projective personality test that uses ambiguous images to reveal unconscious thoughts.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test?
This psychologist proposed the theory of general intelligence, known as g-factor.
Who is Charles Spearman?
This term refers to the extent to which a test measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
A 10 year old child's IQ according to the original formula, if that child has a mental age of 14.
What is 140?
According to the triadic theory of intelligence, this type of intelligence involves the ability to apply knowledge and adapt to new situations encountered in everyday life.
What is practical intelligence?
This phenomenon occurs when individuals perform better on tests when they are in the same environment where they learned the material.
What is context-dependent memory?
This psychologist developed the theory of multiple intelligences, proposing that there were 8 types of intelligence independent from one another.
Who is Howard Gardner?
This term describes a belief or expectation that influences one's behavior in a manner that causes the belief to come true? EX)"Gifted" children will be successful because of the expectations associated with the "gifted" label.
What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?
If a person's intelligence test score falls exactly at the mean of 100 and the standard deviation is 15, that person falls at this percentile rank.
What is the 50th percentile?
This term refers to the ability to solve problems and adapt to new situations. This declines with age.
What is fluid intelligence?
The term for the phenomenon where the expectations of the experimenter or tester can influence the participant's behavior.
What is demand characteristic?
This psychologist proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence, consisting of analytical, creative, and practical intelligence.
Who is Robert Sternberg?
This term describes the phenomenon where individuals perform worse on a task when they are aware of negative perceptions about their group.
What is the stereotype threat?
In a normal distribution of intelligence scores, this percentage of the population falls within one standard deviation above or below the mean.
What is 68%?
This is the most widely used intelligence today, that includes 15 subtests with verbal and non-verbal tasks.
What is the Wechsler Intelligence Scale?
According to Bandura's social-cognitive theory, this term describes the belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task. (Children need this if they are going to try to mimic what they observe!)
What is self-efficacy?