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Intelligence
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Single entity | charles spearman's theory, believed that we have one general intelligence (g factor) |
| LL Thurston | critic of g factor, identified 7 clusters of primary mental abilities |
| Fluid intelligence (gf) | our ability to reason rapidly and abstractly; tends to decrease with age |
| crystallized intelligence(gc) | accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age |
| Cattell-horn-carroll theory | theory that our intelligence is based on g factor as well as specific abilities bridged by crystallized and fluid intelligence |
| Multiple intelligence | Howard Gardner; argues intelligence should be measured in plurality rather than singularity proposes 8 independent intelligences |
| savant syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill |
| GRIT | passion and perseverance in pursuit of long term goals |
| Robert Sternberg | offers triarchic theory |
| Triarchic theories | comprises 3 intelligences, analytical, creative, practical |
| general intelligence | can predict performance, correlated with exceptional achievements but not predictive of overall success nor singularly defined |
| Deliberate practice | for long periods of time can help cultivate skills in many areas |
| emotional intelligence | ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions |
| achievement test | tests what has been learned |
| aptitude test | designed to predict a persons future performance (capacity to learn) |
| intelligence test | method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing with others |
| stanford binet | widely used American revision of binet's og intelligence test |
| intelligence quotient (iq) | defined originally as ration of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 |
| mental age | measure of intelligence test performance devised by binet; the level of performance typically associated with children of a certain age |
| Lewis Terman | revised Binet's tests and purpose (applied to immigration and ww1 recruits) |
| Wechsler adult intelligence scale | most common modern test, contains verbal and performance subtests |
| psychometrics | the study of measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits |
| cross sectional study | research that compares people of different ages at the same point in time |
| longitudinal study | research that follows and retests the same people at different points in time |
| Epigenetics | interaction between biology and enviornment |
| stereotype threat | self confirming that one will be evaluated based on negative stereotypes |
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