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show The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. "A mental ability to learn from experience" Socially constructed and is defined to the attributes that enable success in a culture.  
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show To assess individuals' mental aptitudes and compare them with those of others  
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Reification   show
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Reification Example   show
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show The sort of problem solving that demonstrates this is what researchers have historically assessed in their tests of intelligence  
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show Stanford-Binet, WAIS, and WISC  
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show A statistical procedure that can be used to identify clusters of closely related test items. It has been used to assess whether intelligence is a single trait or a collection of distinct abilities.  
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Spearman's G Factor   show
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show Believed that the value of a single intelligence test score provided an index of an individual's mental capacities  
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Illustration of the G Factor   show
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show People's scores on the general intelligence factor are most highly correlate with the  
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Those who emphasize the G Factor   show
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show Disagreed with Spearman about the nature of intelligence. He identified seven clusters of primary mental abilities rather than one general intelligence factor.  
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Seven Clusters of Primary Mental Abilities   show
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Thurstone Claimed   show
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Thurstone's Seven Primary Mental Abilities Example   show
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Howard Gardner   show
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show Musical (Music Smart), Bodily-Kinesthetic (Body Smart), Interpersonal (People Smart), Verbal-Linguistic (Word Smart). Logical Mathematical (Logic Smart), Naturalistic (Nature Smart), Interpersonal (Self Smart), and Visual Spatial (Picture Smart)  
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Savant Syndrome Part One   show
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Savant Syndrome Part Two   show
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show Stephen Wiltshire is a British architectural artist. He is known for his ability to draw from memory a landscape after seeing it just once. At the age of three he was diagnosed as autistic.  
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show Developed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence. He distinguished between analytical, practical, and creative intelligences.  
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show Measures practical intelligence such as writing skills, skill in motivating others, and the ability to effectively delegate tasks.  
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Analytic Intelligence   show
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show Use of experience in ways that foster insight  
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Practical Intelligence   show
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show The ability to identify, use, understand, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict  
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Critical Component   show
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Components of Emotional Intelligence are   show
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Criticism for Emotional Intelligence   show
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Emotional Intelligence Example   show
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show A basic intelligence predicts our abilities in varied academic areas. Different abilities correlate like Verbal and Spatial. Human abilities are too diverse to be encapsulated by a single general intelligence factor.  
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Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities   show
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Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Part One   show
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show Should all of our abilities be considered intelligences? Shouldn't some be called less vital talents  
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show Our intelligence is best classified into three areas that predict real-world success: analytical, creative, and practical. These three facets can be reliably measured.  
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Sternberg's Triarchic Part Two   show
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MRI Scan Reveal   show
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show Although not notably heavier or larger in total size than the typical Canadian's brain, Einstein's brain was 15% larger in the lower region of the partial lobe.  
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Lower Region of Partial Lobe   show
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show Reveal that highly educated people have more synapses when they die than do their less educated counterparts  
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Research on Intelligence and Brain Anatomy   show
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Environmental Stimulation   show
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High Intelligences Scores Have Been Linked With   show
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Higher Intelligences Scores are Positively Correlated   show
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Studies suggest that there is a positive correlation between   show
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To learn whether intelligence is related to information-processing capacities   show
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Retrieve Information Example   show
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show This nineteenth-century English scientist believed that superior intelligence is biologically inherited. Also authored the book Heredity Genius  
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Galton Attempted to Assess Intellectual Strengths by Measuring   show
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Alfred Binet Part One   show
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show Intelligence test were initially designed by this person and Simon to assess academic aptitude and to identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes. They assumed a bright child would perform like a normal older child.  
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show The chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of intelligence test performance. Used to determine whether a child's intellectual development was fast or slow. To asses this, Binet and Simon measured children's reasoning skills  
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show Five-year-old Wilbur performs on an intelligence test at a level characteristic of an average 4-year-old. His mental age is 4  
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IQ (original Stanford-Binet)   show
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IQ (original Stanford-Binet) Example   show
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show Widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the Stanford-Binet.  
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Binet and Terman   show
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show Was inherited and that intelligence tests would be a great way to classify children  
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The Eugenics Movement   show
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show to evaluate newly arriving immigrants. Poor test scores among immigrants who were not of Anglo-Saxon heritage were attributed to innate mental inferiority.  
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show would be least appropriate for representing the intelligence test performance of college students  
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show that important lessons that although science strives for objectivity, scientists can be influenced by their personal biases  
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show Tests designed to assess learned knowledge or skills  
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Achievement Test Example   show
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Aptitude Tests   show
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show A test of your capacity to learn to be an automobile mechanic  
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show A test that provides separate verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed scores, as well as an overall intelligence score.  
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show Object assembly, picture arrangement, and block design. Designed to test children's intelligence.  
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Weschler Adult Intellgience Scale (WAIS) Example   show
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Standardization   show
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show If you were told that you correctly answered 80 percent of the times on a math achievement test, and you asked how you performance compared with an average test taker, your concern would be directly related to the issue of standardization  
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Normal Curve   show
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Less than 2% of people fall in this range   show
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About 95% people   show
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show Fall in this range within 15 points of 100  
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Flynn Effect   show
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The Flynn Effect best illustrates   show
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show Comparing the average performance of the initial WAIS standardization sample with average performance of the most recent WAIS standardization provides convincing evidence of the Flynn Effect.  
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Reliability   show
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Reliability Example   show
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show If a test measures or predicts what it is suppose to measure or predict. Psychologists measure the correlation between aptitude tests and school grades in order to assess the validity of the aptitude test.  
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Validity Example   show
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Content Validity   show
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show Do the questions really assess the construct in question or are the responses by the person answering the questions influenced by the other factors.  
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Content Validity Example   show
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show Refers to how well the assessment results can predict a relationship between the construct of being measured and future behavior.  
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Predictive Validity Question   show
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show This of general aptitude tests decrease as educational experience of the students who take them increases because there is a relatively restricted range of aptitude test scores among students at a higher education levels.  
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Rough indicator of infants' later intelligence   show
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The stability of children's intelligence test scores over time   show
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show Who outscored most high school seniors on a college aptitude test had begun reading at an unusually early age  
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The high positive correlations between scores received on comparable sections of the   show
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Ian and his colleagues   show
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Stability Example   show
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Women scoring in the highest 25% on the national intelligence test   show
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show Is a condition involving intellectual disability caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup  
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show Have difficulty adapting to the normal demands of independent adult life  
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Individuals with a mild intellectual disability   show
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show Have an intelligence score between 35 and 49  
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show Children with an intellectual disability have increasingly been mainstreamed into regular school classrooms.  
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The percentage of people diagnosed with an intellectual disability   show
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show Found that intellectually gifted children are typically socially adjusted and academically successful.  
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Gifted Education Programs are Criticized for   show
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Research on the determinants of intelligence   show
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Researchers have identified many different chromosomal regions   show
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show The similarity between intelligence test scores of identical twins raised apart is greater than ordinary siblings raised together. As children age, adopted children's intelligence test scores become more positively correlated with their biological parents  
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The Heritability of Intelligence   show
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The heritability of intelligence is greatest among   show
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show Is most apparent among children who experience minimal interaction with caregivers. The intellectual development of neglected children in impoverished environments is often depressed  
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show J. McVicker Hunt studied children an Iranian orphanage that suffered delayed intellectual development due to a deprived environment. He began a program of tutored human enrichment that trained caregivers to imitate babies' babbling  
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The Mozart Effect   show
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Research indicates that Head Start programs   show
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Interventions that promote intelligence teach early teens that the brain is like a muscle   show
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show To outperform girls in a chess game and in mentally rotating three-dimensional objects  
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Girls are most likely   show
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show Than men at interpreting others' facial expression of emotion  
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show In a highschool classroom for students that are highly gifted in math problem solving  
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Exposure to high levels of male sex hormones   show
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show Little of the gender gap in mathematical abilities found in Turkey and Korea illustrating that mental abilities are socially influenced.  
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show In intelligence indicates that on average Black American perform less well than White Americans on intelligence tests.  
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The racial gap on the IQ test   show
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The distribution of intelligence test scores   show
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show Are higher than the scores of the 1930s population  
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Research on racial and ethnic differences   show
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show Has been observed to be greatest when these individuals were high school juniors  
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The Question of Bias   show
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show When completing a verbal aptitude test, members of an ethnic minority group are particularly likely to perform below their true ability levels if they believe that the test is biased against members of their own ethnic group  
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Blacks have been founded to score lower on tests of verbal aptitude   show
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Stereotype Threat   show
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show Note that racial difference in intelligence test scores occur on nonverbal as well as verbal intelligence subscales  
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Psychologists would agree that intelligence tests   show
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Intelligence tests have effectively reduced discrimination   show
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