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The ability to learn from experience, solve problems and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
What is intelligence?
The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on retesting.
What is reliability?
what happens with intelligence with age
What is increases and decreases?
a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
what is stereotype threat?
Passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long term goals
What is grit?
Defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.
What is standardization?
a group of people sharing a common characteristic, such as being from a given time period
What is a cohort?
the gender that tends to have more of an overconfidence bias when guessing their IQ
What is men?
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills- it increases with age
What is crystallized intelligence?
the bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes.
What is normal curve?
research that compares people of different ages at the same point in time
what is a cross-sectional study?
Since group scores on intelligence tests are varied, some of the variations might be attributed to bias in the test itself
What is test bias?
Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly. Decreases with age
What is fluid intelligence?
the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.
What is content validity?
research that follows and retests the same people over time
What is longitudinal study?
The two factors that play a role in mental ability
What are environmental and genetic?
Revised Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences to make it less random
Who is Sternberg?
the rise in intelligent test performance over time and across cultures
what is the Flynn effect?
the type of correlation when testing IQ scores in life
What is positive correlation?
The psychologist who came up the concept of the stereotype threat