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| systematic means of quantifying differences among people in their intelligence |
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| diagnostic tool designed to measure overall thinking ability |
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| capacity to understand hypothetical concepts |
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| hypothetical factor that accounts for overall differences in intellect among people |
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| particular ability level in a narrow domain |
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| capacity to learn new ways of solving problems |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time |
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| idea that people very in their ability levels across different domains of intellectual skill |
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| intelligence proposed by Robert Sternberg positing three distinct types of intelligence: analytical, practical, and creative |
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| the ability to reason logically |
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| the ability to solve real-world problems, especially those involving other people |
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| our ability to come up with novel and effective answers to questions |
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| age corresponding to the average individual's performance on an intelligence test |
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| expression of a person's IQ relative to his or her same-aged peers |
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| movement in the early twentieth century to improve a population's genetic stock by encouraging those with good genes to reproduce, preventing those with bad genes from reproducing, or both |
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| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test (WAIS) |
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| most widely used intelligence test for adults today, consisting of 15 subtests to assess different types of mental abilities |
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| intelligence test based on the measure developed by Binet and Simon, adapted by Lewis Terman of Standford University |
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| abstract reasoning items that don't depend on language and are often believed to be less influenced by cultural factors then other IQ tests |
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| distribution of scores in which the bulk of the scores fall toward the middle, with progressively fewer scores toward the "tails" or extremes |
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| conditioned characterized by an onset prior to adulthood, and IQ below about 70, and an inability to engage in adequate daily functioning |
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| find that average IQ scores have been rising at a rate of approximately 3 points per decade |
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| tendency of a test to predict outcomes better in one group than another |
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| within-group heritability |
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| extent to which the variability of a trait within a group is genetically influenced |
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| between-group heritability |
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| extent to which differences in a trait between groups is genetically influenced |
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| fear that we confirm a negative group stereotype |
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| capacity to generate many different solutions to a problem |
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| capacity to generate the single best solution to a problem |
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| ability to understand our own emotions and those of others, and to apply this information to our daily lives |
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| ideological immune system |
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| our psychological defenses against evidence that contradicts our views |
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| Fluid and Crystallized intelligence |
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| Triarchic model, analytical (book smarts), practical (street/social smarts), creative (creativity) |
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| G (general) S (specific) intelligence |
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| The first to develop an intelligence test, a diagnostic tool to measure overall thinking ability |
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| Standford-Binet IQ test (Based off of Simon and Binet (the first to develop an IQ test) |
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Women: High levels of estrogen leads to better verbal skills (like tongue twisters) and better arithmetic skills. They also have higher emotional intelligence.
Men are better at spatial tasks and complex math |
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