This theorist proposed that intelligence comprises both a general factor and specific factors.
Who is Charles Spearman?
100
Test comparing a child's mental age with his/her chronological age.
What is IQ?
100
True or False: Heredity is found to be much more influential on intelligence than the environment.
What is False?
100
This gender typically performs better in verbal and communication aspects.
What are girls?
100
The ability to apply past knowledge and experiences flexibly to accomplish challenging new tasks.
What is Intelligence?
200
This theorist believes children and adults have multiple intelligences.
Who is Howard Gardner?
200
The extent to which an intelligence test actually measures intelligence.
What is Validity?
200
______ twins typically have more similar IQs.
What is identical?
200
This gender typically performs better in spatial and mathematics skills.
What are boys?
200
The extent to which an assessment instrument offends or unfairly penalizes some individuals because of their ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status.
What is Cultural bias?
300
Found evidence for fluid and crystallized intelligence.
Who is Raymond Cattell?
300
The extent to which a test yields consistent, and dependable scores.
What is Reliability?
300
Adopted children have IQs that are more similar to their _________ parents.
What is biological?
300
This class of students is at greater risk of performing poorly in school.
What are low-income students?
300
The gradual increase in intelligence test performance observed in many countries over the past several decades.
What is the Flynn Effect?
400
Has made a number of distinctions that involve threes of something.
Who is Robert Sternberg?
400
Focuses on assessing on children's abilities to learn in new situations.
What is dynamic assessment?
400
This type of intervention provides medically approved food supplements and vitamins to infants and young children who would not otherwise have adequate nutrition.
What is nutrition?
400
European Americans and Asian Americans typically outperform these two races in intelligence testing.
What are African Americans and Hispanic Americans?
400
The tendency to actively seek out environments that match one's inherited abilities.
What is niche-picking?
500
The 3 general skills that are especially adaptive in Western culture.
What are practical problem solving ability, verbal ability, and social competence?
500
Tests of cognitive abilities for infants and toddlers.
What are developmental assessments?
500
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is an effect of a _________
What is a teratogen?
500
Various ethnic and racial groups have, in recent years, become increasingly _______ in IQ scores and other measures of cognitive ability.
What is similar?
500
Toxic substances such as drugs, alcohol, radiation, lead-based paint dust, etc. that affect neurological development, later resulting in negative effects on children’s IQ scores