Intelligence
Assessing Intelligence
Nature / Nurture?
Group Differences
Potpourri
100
According to Spearman, this refers to your intelligence as a single numerical score
What is general intelligence or g score
100
Explain the difference between Aptitude and Achievement tests. Provide an example of each
Achievement- reflects what you learned (AP exam) Aptitude - predicts ability to learn a new skill (MAT)
100
What parts of the brain might be larger affecting math and spatial abilities? Does a bigger brain = smarter?
What is the frontal and parietal lobe
100
Explain how project Head Start benefits students
What is does not improve baseline intelligence - but does change attitudes about school and reduces the risk for criminality
100
Explain the eugenics movement
What is the movement to encourage selective breeding of highly intelligent people with one another and the restriction of breeding among those with low intellect
200
Sara says she has an IQ of 125 - what error is she committing?
What is reification - viewing an abstract thing as concrete/real
200
What is the most widely used intelligence scales for kids and adults?
Weschler Kids - WISC Adults - WAIS
200
Higher educated people have more __________ when they die than do their less educated counterparts
What are synapses
200
Which group of students outperform North American students on math achievement and aptitude tests? Why?
What is Asian students - go to school 30 days longer and place more value on school/studying
200
What is the famous equation for determining IQ?
What is mental age divided by chronological age X 100
300
Gardner helped determine that there are 8 types of intelligences that may be very low in some areas, but very high in others - such as when a person is able to name every baseball player that ever played for the NY Yankees since its inception - but is unable to tell you the current president of the United States - This represents what term?
What is savant syndrome
300
This principle of test construction defines meaningful scores relative to a pretested group
What is standardization
300
When identical twins take the same test - explain what the results likely show
What is that the twins have very comparable scores - almost looks as if the same person took the test 2x
300
When is the widest gap between races in intelligence testing? Why is this so important???
What is Junior year of High School - SAT/ACT college admissions
300
Adolescents who scored higher on intelligence tests on a whole started ______ before their peers
What is reading (around age 4 or 5)
400
Sternberg discussed 3 types of intelligences: analytical, ___________ and _____________
What is creative and practical
400
This process of test construction determines in the test yields dependably consistent scores
What is reliability
400
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? Provide an example
What is when a person is labeled as something and that comes to fruition (maybe given more or less opportunities based on label) Tall and fast - picked more for basketball, play more games, receive more coaching = better basketball player
400
Explain the concept of stereotype threat
What is black students taking verbal aptitude tests under conditions designed to make them feel threatened performed at a lower level Black students scored higher when tested by other Black people Women's scores higher when no men in the room
400
Intelligence tests are most likely to be considered culturally biased in terms of their __________ validity
What is content
500
List the 4 types of emotional intelligence - why are these important?
What is perceive, understand, manage, and use You will use these every day for the rest of your life!!!
500
Pertinent behavior is to future performance as __________ validity is to __________ validity
What is content to predictive
500
Explain where the processing center of the brain is and how having a "fast" or "slow" processor can affect your intellect
What is the global workspace for organizing and coordinating info - above the eyebrows - just like a computer, the faster the processor, the more info the person can acquire
500
List at least 3 ways men and women differ on intelligence abilities
What is 1) spelling - females 2) verbal ability - females 3) nonverbal memory - females 4) sensation - females 5) emotion detecting - females 6) Math and spatial - same Males - math problem solving, women - math computation Males - spatial ability Men - chess grandmasters
500
What are the ranges for intellectual disabilities?
What is Mild 50-70 Moderate 35-50 Severe 25-35 Profound 0-25
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