Vocab
A self-conforming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
What is a Stereotype Threat?
The term "intelligence quotient" was coined by...
Who is William Stern?
This test helps professionals cater to strength and weaknesses with children; 11 subtests.
What is the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)?
One of the most common debates in psychology
What is nature vs. nurture?
If someone has an actual age of 12 and a mental age of 15, what is their IQ?
125
Whether a test predicts what it is supposed to predict
What is predictive validity?
This man broke down intelligence into 7 different factors to form...
What is Thurstone's primary mental abilities?
The widely used american revision of Binet's original intelligence test
What is the Stanford-Binet test?
______ children's IQ became more like their parents over time.
What is adopted?
This is the name for the rise in IQ scores over the years
What is the Flynn Effect?
The most widely used intelligence scale; contains verbal and performance subtests.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)?
The 3 areas that were formed by this person to predict real world success (analytical, creative, practical)
What is Sternberg's triarchic?
This test is given to babies when they are born to check for abnormalities.
What is the APGAR test?
Schools with more poverty-stricken children have less qualified teachers which leads too...
What is lower achievement scores?
Below this number IQ is considered a intellectual disability.
70
Where a person with limited mental ability has an exceptional skill such as drawing.
What is Savant Syndrome?
This person is responsible for developing the g-factor theory.
Who is Charles Spearman?
The test designed to predict a person's future performance
What is the aptitude test?
Identical twins reared apart have a ____ intelligence than of fraternal twins reared together.
What is higher? (shows genetic effects)
If you have more of this type of matter in your brain then you tend to have a higher IQ.
What is Grey Matter?
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.
What is Standardization?
Spatial, musical, and linguistic are all aptitude’s of this person’s intelligence theory.
Who is Howard Gardner? (Eight intelligences)
The specific way a person's IQ is calculated
What is mental age divided by chronological age then multiply by 100?
Tutored human enrichment- trained caregivers working with infants to play language fostering games
What is J. McVicker Hunt?
Viewing an abstract, immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing.
What is Reification?