IQ
Intelligence Testing
Factors Affecting Intelligence
Levels of intelligence
Wild Card
100
What is intelligence?
The ability to understand and adapt to the environment using inherited abilities and learning experiences.
100
Why was the Weschler test created?
To test intelligence in delinquents on skid row with low verbal/literacy skills.
100
How is intelligence defined in Malaysia? How is this different than how it is defined in Australia?
Malaysians value social skills; Australians value academic/industrial skills.
100
Are twins likely to have similar or dissimilar IQs?
similar
200
What is the name of the first intelligence test created? Where was it created and why?
Stanford-Binet, France, to find children who need special services.
200
What are the two parts of the Weschler test?
Verbal scale and performance scale.
200
What percentage of intelligence is inherited?
50%
200
What IQ score is borderline mental retardation?
70-79
200
What is Mr. Binet's first name?
Alfred
300
What are the four elements of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test? Explain what each one means.
direction, adaptability, comprehension, self-evaluation.
300
What are the two types of Weschler intelligence tests?
Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale. Weschler Intelligence scale for children.
300
Name two environmental factors that can affect intelligence.
malnutrition, how stimulating the environment is,
300
What is mental retardation?
below-average intellectual functioning that prevents a person from being able to perform at the level appropriate for his or her age.
300
What does it mean to "break set"?
come up with unusual, unexpected ideas; use something in a way different from the way in which it is normally used.
400
What is mental age?
The level of your intellectual functioning in years, compared with your chronological age.
400
What is Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences?
The theory that intelligence is made up of seven abilities.
400
What is cultural bias?
the unfair measurement of cultural groups' abilities.
400
What is savant syndrome?
a condition in which a person with below-normal mental capacity possesses a special talent or mental ability to an extremely high degree.
400
what is creativity?
the mental processes that result in original, workable ideas.
500
If a teenager has a mental age of 20, and a chronological age of 15, what is his IQ?
133
500
What are the categories in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences?
language, logical/math, visual/spatial, musical, bodily movement, intrapersonal, interpersonal.
500
What happens to a rat's brain when it is placed in a stimulating environment?
it grows a thicker, heavier brain
500
What is inclusion?
When people with mental retardation are included in regular ed classrooms.
500
What was the name of the state school that was shown in the documentary, "Suffer the little Children"?
Pennhurst
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