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The mental abilities necessary to adapt and shape the environment
-keys to lifelong learning |
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Sir Francis Galton's:
Eugenics Movement |
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improving the hereditary characteristics of society
Intelligence related to success + wealth
i.e. white-upper/middle class individuals ENCOURAGED to reproduce
while members of other races should be DISCOURAGED from reproducing
i.e. Immigration Act of 1924 |
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| What two things did the Binet-Simon Test measure? |
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GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY
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ABSTRACT REASONING |
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Intelligence Test
predicts your CAPACITY to learn a new skill given ADEQUATE education |
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measures what you have ALREADY LEARNED
i.e. ((exams given at a college course)) |
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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test created
INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ) |
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ratio of mental age divided by chronological age
IQ = ((Mental age/ Chronological Age)) x 100 |
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| Wechsler Intelligence Scales |
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most widely used set of intelligence tests
contains VERBAL and PERFORMANCE (nonverbal) subscales
yield verbal IQ, performance IQ, and overall IQ |
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| process of establishing UNIFORM procedures for administering a test and for interpreting its score |
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| Bell-shaped appearance of a distribution that results when the mean, median, and mode are identical in value |
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| TENDENCY for people's performance to improve from one generation TO THE NEXT |
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degree to which a test yields consisten results
i.e. "Test-Retest Reliability" same test given in different occasions for reliability |
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| degree to which a test measures what it is designed to measure |
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degree to which ITEMS on a test are RELATED to the characteristic the test supposedly measures
((more abstract reasoning = more likely to have valid content)) |
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| Predictive Validity (Criterion Validity) |
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| when test results predict other observable behaviors |
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| statistical technique allowing researchers to identify clusters of variables that CORRELATE with one another |
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| General intelligence (g) - Factor |
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intelligence that underlies all mental abilities
s-factor: individual mental abilities |
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| Thurstones Primary Mental Abilities |
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LATERAL FRONTAL CORTEX-activated
reasoning
verbal fluency
verbal comprehension
perceptual speed
spatial skills
numerical computation
memory |
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| Crystallized Intelligence |
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| using past experience/knowledge to solve FAMILIAR problems |
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being able to to understand relationships and figure out problems WITHOUT past experience
People with strong abilities to find solutions |
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brain evolved with separate systems for different adaptive abilities
linguistic, logical mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal) which differently developed in each of us
development depends on what is highly valued in society |
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| Individuals who easily master skills in a PARTICULAR INTELLECTUAL AREA |
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| Demonstrates exceptional ability in ONE SPECIFIC area but may be intellectually disabled in other areas |
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| Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence |
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Three sets of mental abilities make up human intelligence:
1) Analytic
2) Creative
3) Practical |
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| ability to produce high quality products/ideas |
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| applying logic/conventional knowledge to find a SINGLE SOLUTION to a problem |
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pursuing different/unconventional paths to generate MANY different solutions to a problem
i.e. BRAINSTORMING sessions |
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| ability to recognize/regulate our's/other emotions |
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diagnostic category for people with IQ LESS THAN 70.
also have difficulty adapting to routine demands of independent living |
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| an intellectual DISABILITY baused by an EXTRA CHROMOSOME in individ. genome |
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| statistical coefficient that estimates degree HEREDITY determines intelligence in particular human group |
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| a range where a person's intelligence lies, range is GENETICALLY determined, but where they lie in that range is ultimately determined by ENVIRONMENTAL factors |
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| minorities who have FREELY come to this country perceiving it as a land of oportunity |
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minorities FORCED against their will to become part of the country being conquered, colonized, or enslaved.
i.e. slaves from Africa, native Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, and early Mexicans in the Southwest |
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Psychologically opposing social injustice by contrasting larger culture's hostile environment in a BENEFICIAL manner
rejecting dominant culture |
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| apprehension people feel when performing a task in which their group is stereotyped to lack ability of |
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