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AP Psych Unit 11
2023- 2024, Intelligence
Term | Definition |
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Intelligence | ability to learn from experience, solve problem and adapt to new situation |
Intelligence Test | ascessubg ab individual mental aptitudes comparing them with others |
Carl Spearman | factor analysis and g factor |
G-Factor/ Generalized Intelligence | if you are good at one subject you are usually good at many others |
Savant Syndrome | low on intelligence tests, excel beyond imagination in other areas, a persons limited mental ability, has exceptional specific skills |
Howard Gardner | 8 multiple intelligences |
Robert Stenberg | TRI(3)archic theory |
Practical Intelligence | street smarts, common sense |
Analytical Intelligence | traditional test, 1 question 1 answer |
Creative Intelligence | reacting and adapting to novel situations |
Emotional Intelligence | ability to perceive and understand emotions, also use them |
a weak correlation | between brain size and intelligence |
Alfred Binet | identified students who many need special training in areas of struggle |
Mental Age | intelligence age (like wisdom), what they should know |
Chronical Age | actual age |
Louis Terman | could place a number on intelligence |
Stanford-Binet Test | Mental Age/Chronicological Age, MAC, makes adults look dummer |
Achievement Test | designed to access how much you have learned, like a psych quiz |
Aptitude Test | predicts a persons future performance |
David Wechlar | created the modern day test |
Wechslar Adult Intelligence Test (WAIS) | verbal and performance subtest |
WAIS | adults |
WISC | children |
WIPSI | preschool |
Standardization | piloted on similar populations and a normal distribution, uniform procedures |
Reliability | test gives similar results each time |
Test-Retest Reliability | someone takes multiple times and is getting consistent results |
Split-Half Reliability | takes every other answer and should be similar in results |
Validity | measures what it is suppose to be |
Face Validity | looks like it look, surface level, first page |
Content Validity | tests knowlege and skills you want to measure |
Predictive Validity | can predict what it suppose to |
Fluid | adaptability, problem solving, worsens over time, (old people cant do this) |
Crystalized | accumulated knowledge, rises with age |
Flynn Affect | higher IQ scores today, people are getting smarter |
Heritability | proportion of variability among individuals |
Heritability of Intelligence | range from 50-80% |