What is Intelligence?
What is one cognitive skill that determines intelligence?
Abstract thinking
Reasoning
Problem-solving
Acquiring knowledge
What are two qualities that IQ tests must include
Reliability and Validity
What makes people differ in intelligence?
Someones Nature vs. Nurture
What is one type of "Extreme Intelligence"
Intellectual Disability
Giftedness
Prodigy
What is the word for the equivalent chronological age a child has reached based on his or her performance on an IQ test.
Mental age
What is the percentage of someone's genetics (Nature) on sculping intelligence vs someone's environment (Nurture)?
Genetics 50% and environment 40%
What is the maximum score on a bell curve for people with a type of intellectual disability?
70-75
What is one way IQ tests have improved?
By measuring working memory, more theory-driven, include more aspects of intelligence rather than just two or three, different kinds of problems for children of different ages and problems at varied levels of difficulty, and assesses different types of learning styles.
What develops in the prenatal environment that plays a very important role in intelligence?
The brain. Can either be underdeveloped or fully developed depending on the kid's prenatal environment/what the mother provides to the child while in the womb.
What is a prodigy?
Someone who exceeds in one particular area and has an IQ score of at least average.
What two numbers do 68% of people score in between on a bell curve
85-115
What are the four types of environments that play into intelligence?
Enriched environment, Impoverished Environment, a normal environment and a prenantal enviroment.
What is one example of an intellectual disability?
Chromosomal-genetic abnormalities (Down Syndrome)
Prenatal abnormalities
Environmental Deprivation
What are the four cognitive skills that determine Intelligence?
Abstract thinking, Reasoning/Logical thinking, Problem-solving, and the ability to require knowledge
What three components of intelligence did older IQ tests measure
Verbal, spatial, and mathematical forms
What does a reaction range graph represent?
A reaction range graph represents the genetically determined range within which intelligence falls and the exact value within the range depending on the quality of environment that one grows up in.
What made Akaine Kramarik a prodigy?
Her ability to sketch incredibly life-like drawings by the age of 4 and producing world-class paintings by age 9