Introduction to Intelligence
Defined as 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 measures or predicts what it’s supposed to.
What is validity?
A condition of mild to severe intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
What is down syndrome?
The proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes.
What is heritability?
The gender better at spelling, locating objects, detecting emotions, etc.
What is female?
The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
What is emotional intelligence?
The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting.
What is reliability?
Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly.
Two people whose brains are built and function similarly.
What are twins?
The gender better with spatial ability and complex math problems.
What is male?
What are Gardner’s eight intelligences?
A test designed to predict a person’s future performance.
What is an aptitude test?
A condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life.
What is an Intellectual Disability?
Also shared by people who share genes.
What are mental abilities?
A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.
What is a stereotype threat?
He believed that intelligence has two components; general intelligence (g) and specific ability (s).
Who is Charles Spearman?
The effect characterized by substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystalized intelligence test scores.
What is the Flynn effect?
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills.
What is crystallized intelligence?
The thing that, over time, becomes more influential for adopted children.
What are genetic influences?
This is what a test is considered if it detects not only innate differences in intelligence but also performance differences caused by cultural experiences.
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
What is savant syndrome?
He is known for Stanford-Binet test, added contributions to the understanding of how intelligence influences life success, health, and outcomes.
Who is Lewis Terman?
A disease that people with lower intelligence scores while young are at a higher risk for.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
The range of heritability of intelligence.
What is 50-80%?
The exhibited skills that are similar when people of different ethnicities are given the same pertinent information or knowledge.
What are information-processing skills?