Intro To Intelligence
What disorder do many people many people with Savant Syndrome also have?
Autism Spectrum Disorder.
How are IQs calculated
mental age/ chronological age *100
A disorder of varying intellectual and physical severity caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
Down syndrome
The proportion of variation among individuals in a group that we can attribute to genes is.
Heritability
Boys are more likely to have __ intelligence scores when compared with girls.
Lower
Who identified the eight relatively independent intelligences.
Howard Gardner
What are the three criteria psychological tests must meet to be widely accepted?
Standardized, reliable, and valid.
Our __ intelligence tends to decrease with age while __ intelligence increases with age.
Fluid; Crystallized
Education boosts children’s chances for succession by developing their.
Cognitive and social skills
A self- confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.
Stereotype threat.
What are the four abilities of emotional intelligence.
Perceiving, understanding, managing, using emotions.
A student takes the SAT test for college admission is an example of __ test.
Aptitude
A group of kindergartners is given an intelligence test. They are retested every other year for 30 years. This is an example of
Longitudinal study
Can a normal/healthy child be molded into geniuses by growing up in an exceptionally enriched environment?
No, there are no evidence that supports this statement.
Evidence suggests that __ differences are largely, perhaps entirely, responsible for group differences.
Environmental
What intelligence is required for everyday tasks that may be poorly defined and may have multiple solutions.
Practical intelligence
If a test yields consistent result upon retesting, it can be said to have a high degree of.
Reliability
Intellectual disability is defined by both IQ and
Adaptive ability
As they age, adoptive children become __ similar to their adoptive families over time.
Less
__ and __ help shape boys' and girls' interests and abilities.
Social expectations and divergent opportunities
A basic intelligence predicts our abilities in varied academic areas.
Spearman’s general intelligence (g).
Predicts the criterion of future performances, and to some extent they do.
Predictive validity
By what age do children’s performance on intelligence test began to predict their adolescent and adult score.
4
Adopted children’s intelligence scores resemble those of their __ parents much more than their __ parents.
Biological; Adoptive
If a test picks up on performance disparities brought on by cultural experiences in addition to natural differences in intelligence, it may be __.
Biased