Developed the first intelligence test designed to predict performance of French school children.
Who is Binet?
100
This type of test is intended to predict one's ability to learn a new skill.
What is an aptitude test?
100
The formula for calculating IQ.
What is (mental age/chronological age) x 100?
100
This is how the brain correlates with intelligence.
What is a positive correlation; (increased brain volume is associated with increased intelligence)?
100
Mental slowness is defined as having difficulty adapting to normal demands of independent living and have n IQ score below this number.
What is 70?
200
A single, general factor for mental ability assumed to underlie intelligence in some early theories of intelligence.
What is "g" or "g-factor"?
200
This test is the most commonly used aptitude test for adults.
What is the WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)?
200
4 of Gardner's multiple intelligences are:
What are linguistic, logical-mathematical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist, and spatial?
200
This is how glucose correlates with intelligence.
What is a negative correlation; (increase in glucose consumption has a decrease in intelligence)?
200
This is when a person may have limited mental ability and extraordinary talent in one specific area.
What is savant syndrome?
300
This person developed the theory of multiple intelligences.
Who is Gardner?
300
This is the measure of how well a test tests what it is supposed to test.
What is validity?
300
Two subtests of the WAIS are:
What are verbal and performance?
300
An extra 21st chromosome can cause some mental slowness, this condition is know as this.
What is Down's Syndrome?
300
Standards of test performance that permit comparison of one person's score on a test with the scores of others who have taken the same test.
What is the norm?
400
Sternberg has identified 3 types of intelligences. They are:
What are analytical, practical, and creative intelligences?
400
This term means the process of defining meaningful scores relative to a pretested group.
What is standardization?
400
Name 3 of the 5 components of creative intelligence:
What are expertise, imagination, venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, and creative environment?
400
In adopted children, as they grow older which parents does their intelligence tend to take after: biological or adoptive?
Who are the biological parents?
400
2-4% of the population have an IQ greater than 130, they are known as:
What is intellectually gifted?
500
This person helped to develop tests that were given to army recruits and immigrants, he also supported eugenics.
Who is Terman?
500
This (effect) explains why intelligence scores have been steadily rising over the past 80 years.
What is the Flynn effect?
500
IF you give a child a marshmallow and tell him that he can either have it now or wait until you get back, and if he waits he can have two, and the child waits; he is likely to score high on what type of IQ test?
What is emotional intelligence?
500
A piece of evidence that indicates that intelligence has a genetic component is this.
What is identical twins scoring similarly on tests, a gene has been identified that is correlated with intelligence, experiments have shown that an insertion of a certain gene can increase ability to learn in mice?
500
A test that does not discriminate against members of minority groups.