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| INtelligence is a trait or a set of traits that characterizes some people to a greater extent than others |
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| Ability to use your mind actively to solve novel problems |
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| Crystallized intelligence |
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| The use of knowledge acquired through schooling and other life experiences |
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| Level of age-graded problems that the child is able to solve |
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| Stanford-Binet intelligence test |
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| Lewis Terman of Stanford University translated and published a revised version of the test for use with American children |
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| Intelligence quotient (IQ) |
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| Consists of MA divided by CA and then multiplied by 200 |
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| Standards of normal performance expressed as average scores and the range of scores around the average |
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| David Wechsler constructed a set of intelligence tests |
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| Sternberg's Triarchig Abilities Test (STAT) |
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| Intelligence is a convergence of practical, creative, and analytical components |
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| Phenomenon in which extraordinary talent in a particular area is displayed by a person otherwise mentally retarded |
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| Triarchic theory of intelligence |
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| Emphasizes three components that jointly contribute to intelligent behavior: practial or contextual, creative or experiental, and analytic components |
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| defined as intelligent behavior varies from one sociocultural context to another |
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| What is intelligent when a person first encounters a new task is not the same as what is intelligent after extensive experience |
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| Increased efficiency of information processing with practice |
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| Giving people of two different cultural groups an intelligent test whose items are familiar to one group and novel to the other introduces culture bias |
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| Focuses on informatin-processing skills that are assessed by traditional inteligence tests - includes thinking critically and analytically |
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| People are intelligent to the extent that they have the abilities needed to succeed in life, according to their own definition of success within their sociocultural context |
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| Ability to produce novel responses appropriate in context and valued by others |
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| Involves converging on the best answer to a problem |
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| Coming up with a variety of ideas or solutions to a problem when there is no single correct answer |
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| The convergence or coming together of several factors to form a new product |
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| Bayley Scales of Infant Development |
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Test designed for infants and toddlers ages 1 month to 42 month, has three parts:
1. Motor scale
2. Mental scale
3. Behavior rating scale |
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| Developmental quotient (DQ) |
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| Summarizes how well or how poorly the infant performs in comparison with a large norm group of infants and toddlers the same age |
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| Cummulative-deficit hypothesis |
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| Impoverished environments inhibit intellectual growth, and these negative effects accumulate over time |
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| rapid decline in intellectual abilities within a few years of death |
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| Constellation of rich factual knowledge about life combined with procedural knowledge such as strategies for giving advice and handling conflicts |
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| Over the 20th century, average IQ scores have increased in all countries studied |
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| Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment inventory (HOME) |
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| Widely used assessment of the intellectual stimulation of the home environment |
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| Involves more than parent income: it also includes low levels of meeting children's basic needs |
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| Anxiety to confirm to stereotypes of one's own group |
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| Below-average intellctual functioning with limitations in areas of adaptive behavior such as self-care and social skills, originating before age 18 |
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| involves having a high IQ or showing special abilities in areas valued in society |
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| Comparison of approaches to intelligence - see page 318 |
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