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AP Psych Unit 11
2023- 2024, Intelligence
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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% |