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| mental category for drawer |
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| a mental representation of a sensory experience (pie charts are good representation) |
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| system of communication using sound or other symbols to convey info. (language is essential to thinking) |
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“Prescriptive” telling us how we should approach things
Non-Compensatory Models |
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| The Administrative Aproach |
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| satisfying decisions/ good decisions “Descriptive” |
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| • Spearman’s General Factor |
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| )- a general underlying intelligence from which specific factors come. (ability) |
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| • Thurstone’s Multiple-Factor Theory |
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| Theory (7)-people having multiple abilites |
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| )- verbal and numerical skills (can be influenced by education) |
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| less likely to be influenced by formal learning (abstract reasoning, rote memory |
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| – Componential (Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory)- |
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| (analytical) ability to think abstractly, process info. effectively |
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| – Experiential (Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory) |
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| (creative) ability to form new ideas to combine seemingly unrelated facts or info. ex. Insight and divergent thinking |
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| the ability or abilities involved in learning and adaptive behavior |
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| – Contextual( Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory) |
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| )- (practical) ability to adapt to changing enviormental conditions and to shape the environment to maximizes ones strengths and compensate for weakness |
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| how will people perceive, understand and regulate their emotions to others |
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| - ideas of selective reproduction for a better human race |
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| mental age/ childhood intelligence |
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| – The Stanford-Binet (Terman) |
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| WAIS-R (Wechsler Adult Intellegence Scale) |
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| (16+) broken down into a number of different test scores, verbal scores, performance IQ, and an overall IQ |
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| Linguistic (Gardeners 8 intelligences)- |
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| language ability to as in reading, writing, and speaking |
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| Logical-Mathematical (Gardeners 8 intelligences)- |
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| Mathematical problem solving and scientific analysis |
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| Spatial (Gardeners 8 intelligences) |
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| Reasoning about visual spatial relationships |
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| Musical (Gardeners 8 intelligences)- |
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| Musical skills such as the ability to compose and understand music |
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| Bodily (Gardeners 8 intelligences) |
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| kinesthetic- Skill in body movement and handling objects |
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| Intrapersonal (Gardeners 8 intelligences) |
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| Interpersonal (Gardeners 8 intelligences) |
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| )- understanding other people |
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| Naturalist (Gardeners 8 intelligences)- |
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| ability to discern patterns in nature |
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| the study of mental measurement |
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| the items in the test are developed by experts to make sure the items represent the content to be tested |
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| The is given to a person/sample, related estimates of the construct are also collected, test score and other estimates are correlated (.30-.50) |
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| the test is given to person/sample, another test of the construct is given to the same sample, scores are correlated |
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| give test, wait, give same test, correlate scores |
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| Alternate Forms Reliability |
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| give test, wait, give equivalent/parallel test, correlate scores |
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| Split Half Reliability (internal consistency reliability |
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| give test, split test into halves, correlate scores between halves |
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