Spearman/Thurstone
According to Spearman what two factors contribute to a person's intelligence?
What is does intrapersonal mean?
the ability to understand oneself
What are interpersonal skills?
effective communication, interaction, and collaboration with others
What did the questions on Binet and Simon's intelligence test ask about?
attention, memory, and problem solving skills
What do psychologists define intelligence as?
the ability to acquire new ideas and behaviors and adapt to new situations
What is perceptual speed?
the ability to grasp perceptual details quickly and accurately to determine similarities and differences between stimuli
What did critiques argue about Sternberg's theory?
that it made it difficult to measure intelligence with traditional types of measurement
Who "discovered" Emotional Intelligence?
May and Salovey
What is 'mental age'?
a measure of intelligence based on the average abilities of children of a certain age group
Why did France ask psychologist, Alfred Binet, to help design the first intelligence test?
the French government made school attendance for French children a requirement
What do critiques argue about Spearman's theory?
motor, musical, and creative abilities aren't measured and intelligence can't be reduced to two factors and be expressed in a single IQ score
What do critiques say about Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
some of the types are actually skills
What are the four aspects of Emotional Intelligence?
perception, understanding, managing, and using emotions
What was intelligence testing originally used for?
determining which children have learning disabilities and need additional academic assistance
What did Dr. Tom Bouchard's study involving more than 100 sets of twins conclude?
IQ is affected by genetic factors
What did critiques argue about Thurstone's theory?
a person's abilities may be better in one area than another and intelligence can't be measured in all of those aspects
What are at least four of the eight type of intelligence's that Gardner thought people possessed?
linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, body-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and naturalist
What is Emotional Intelligence?
the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relive stress, communicate with others, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict
How does the Binet-Simon Scale have limitations according to Binet?
intelligence is too broad of a concept to quantify with a single number and it's influenced by other factors and changes over time
What environmental factors effect a person's IQ?
nutrition, toxic substances, home environment, early intervention, and formal schooling
What are at least three of L.L. Thurstone's seven factors of intelligence?
Verbal comprehension, numerical ability, spatial relations, perpetual speed, word fluency, memory, and inductive reasoning
What did Robert Sternberg propose the three parts of his triarchic theory consisted of?
analytical (problem solving), creative (ability to problem solve new situations), and practical (ability to adapt to one's environment)
For the current version of the WAIS, released in 2008, the four major scores the test provided were:
verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed
Why is there criticism and views of cultural bias towards IQ testing?
people think the tests' questions are biased towards the environments which they're developed in, mainly white, Western society