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| capacity to understand hypothetical concepts |
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| Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences |
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| idea that people vary in their ability levels with different skills (g is only one component of intelligence) |
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| Gardner's intelligences (7) |
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| linguistic, logicomathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic |
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| capacity to learn new ways of solving problems; more likely to decline with age |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time; increase with age |
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| onset prior to adulthood, IQ below approximately 70, and inadequate adaptive functioning (difficulties with dressing, eating, communicating, etc) |
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| (meaning "good genes") movement in early twentieth century where to improve population they encouraged ppl with good genes to reproduce and prevented ppl with bad genes from reproducing |
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| intelligence quotient (IQ) |
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| systematic way of finding differences among peoples in intelligence (not fixed) |
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| usually remain stable; tested with WAIS |
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| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) |
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most widely used IQ test for adults, consists of 15 subtests to access different mental abilities (vocab, arithmetic, reasoning, knowledge about the world, etc)
scores: verbal comprehension relates to crystallized intelligence; perceptual reasoning to fluid |
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| Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and Wechsler Primary and Preschool Scale of Intelligence(WPPSI) |
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| widely used IQ tests for children; in their fourth and third editions; WISC- children and adolescents; WPPSI- 2 and a half to 7 |
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| test of abstract-reasoning that doesn't depend on language and is less influenced by culture than other tests |
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| mild positive correlation |
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| IQ in infancy and childhood |
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| prior to 2 or 3, not stable; scores obtained in first few years don't forecast outcomes unless extremely low (under 50) predict mental retardation; quicker habituation may mean higher IQ |
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"concurrent": ability to relate to outcomes measured at the same time as the test
"predictive": capacity to forecast future outcomes |
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| positively correlated with social class; positively correlated with health; low positive correlation with school b/c of motivation, effort, curiosity, etc |
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| bell curved; 95% of ppl between 70-130; small bump on left indicating more very low scores than expected probably caused by assortive mating |
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