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PSYCH 251 Review
Chapter 9
Term | Definition |
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Piaget’s definition of intelligence | thinking or behaving that is adaptive |
Psychometric Approach to intelligence | the research tradition that spawn the development of standarized testing ~general mental ablility that contributes to performance on many different kinds of tast |
Binet and Simon’s IQ test was originally designed for who? | large battery of tasks measuring the skills believe to be neccessary for classroom learning ~attention, perception, memory, reasoning, verbal comprehension |
Normal IQ | 100 |
Bayley Scale of Infant Development measures what? | motor= grasp or throw mental= reaching for a desired object, searching behavior= goal derived, emotional regulation, social response |
What happens in adulthood to intelligence? | |
Define Mental Retardation | |
“g” factor- Charles Spearman | what accounts for spearnman observation that people were often consistant across a range of task |
Crystallized Intelligence | use of knowledge acquired through schooling and life experiences |
Fluid Intelligence | ablility to use your mind actively to solve problems |