Category 1: Theories of Intelligence
This theory divides intelligence into fluid and crystallized intelligence.
What is the Cattell-Horn Theory?
This side of the debate emphasizes genetics and heredity.
What is Nature?
The average IQ score is typically set at this number
What is 100?
This term describes the tendency for scores on cognitive tasks to correlate positively.
What is the positive manifold?
This theory suggests intelligence consists of analytical, creative, and practical abilities.
What is Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory?
This side emphasizes environment and experience.
What is Nurture?
Consistency of test results over time is known as this.
What is reliability?
Knowledge gained through education and experience is called this type of intelligence.
What is crystallized intelligence?
This psychologist developed the Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Who is Howard Gardner?
Studies of these types of relatives are commonly used to estimate the heritability of intelligence.
What are twins?
A test that measures what it claims to measure is said to have this quality.
What is Validity?
The ability to reason and solve new problems without prior knowledge is called this type of intelligence.
What is fluid intelligence?
This psychologist proposed emotional intelligence as an important form of intelligence.
Who is Daniel Goleman?
The ability of the brain to adapt and change due to experience is called this.
What is neuroplasticity?
IQ stands for these two words.
What is Intelligence Quotient?
This phenomenon occurs when anxiety hurts performance on a test.
What is test anxiety?
This psychologist proposed the idea of a general intelligence factor called “g.”
Who is Charles Spearman?
Research generally finds that intelligence is influenced by this combination of factors.
What are genes and environment?
This French psychologist helped create the first modern intelligence test.
Who is Alfred Binet?
This effect refers to the rise in average IQ scores over generations.
What is the Flynn Effect?