The Concept of Intelligence
Theories of Intelligence
Intelligence Tests
Intelligence This, Intelligence That...
The Extremes of Intelligence and Creativity
100
We can evaluate intelligence ________by studying and comparing the intelligent acts that people perform.
What is indirectly?
100
Howard Gardner is best known for his ______________.
What is theory of multiple intelligences? $50 bonus if you name them all as well!
100
_____ introduced the concept of mental age in discussions of intelligence.
Who is Alfred Binet?
100
The world wide increase in intelligence test scores across generations is known as.... (hint...you are smarter than your parents!)
What is the Flynn effect?
100
The ability to think about something in novel and unusual ways and come up with unique solutions to problems.
What is creativity?
200
The ability to solve problems, and the capacity to adapt and learn from experience is defined as...
What is intelligence?
200
Intelligence is not as _______ as theorists once envisioned
What is stable?
200
The Weschler Scales not only provide an overall IQ score, and scores on a number of subtests, but also yield ________
What are composite indexes?
200
The fraction of the variance within a population that is attributed to genetics.
What is heritability? $50 bonus if you name the correlation the APA concluded was the heritability of intelligence.
200
___________,____________,____________, and _________ are the four types of mental retardation.
What are mild, moderate, severe, and profound. $50 bonus if you are able to state the IQ range of each.
300
____________ produces many answers to the same question.
What is divergent thinking?
300
_________, ___________, and ____________ are the three forms of intelligence which comprise Sternberg's Triarchic Theory?
What is analytical, creative, and practical intelligence?
300
IQ scores are misused and can become self-fulfilling prophecies To be effective, intelligence tests should be used in conjunction with other information about an individual, such as______....
What are The child’s developmental history, Medical background, Performance in school\Social competencies, and Family experiences
300
The most prominent finding from brain imaging studies is that a distributed neural network involving ____________is related to higher intelligence
What are the frontal and parietal lobes?
300
The technique in which children are encouraged to come up with creative ideas...
What is brainstorming?
400
Improving a child's _____________ can also improve his intelligence.
What is environment?
400
Whose theory of intelligence is the only one to include the concept of "emotional intelligence"?
Who are Salovey and Malone?
400
The current version of the Bayley-III has these 5 scales.
What are: Cognitive, Language, Motor, Socioemotional, and Adaptive?
400
Mental retardation caused by a genetic disorder.
What is organic retardation?
400
An intellectually gifted individual would have an MA that was _____ the CA.
What is higher/greater than?
500
When misused, IQ scores can lead to____________
What are self fulfilling prophecies?
500
Intelligence tests that aim to avoid cultural bias.
What are cultural fair tests? $50 bonus if you elaborate your answer by including ethnic comparisons!
500
The anxiety that one's behavior might confirm a negative stereotype about one's group is...
What is stereotype threat?
500
One recent study found that speed of neurological functioning was faster for .....
What are intellectually gifted children?
500
Ellen Winner (1996) described three criteria that characterize gifted children, whether in art, music, or academic domains:
What are "Precocity", "Marching to their own drummer", and "A passion to master"?
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