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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/03/2012

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Intelligence
Definition
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems & use our knowledge to adapt to new situations.
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Mental age
Definition
the level of performance typically associated with a certain chronological age.
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Stanford-Binet test
Definition
The widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test.
-Tests:1. Verbal Reasoning 2. Quantitative reasoning 3.Abstract/Visual reasoning 4.Short-term memory.
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IQ
Definition
Mental age/ Chronological age x 100
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general intelligence
Definition
Underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.
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Savant syndrom
Definition
Those who often score low on intelligence tests but have an island of brilliance.
-Might be part of autism
-one skill might be destroyed but really good in another.
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Welchsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Definition
Rates both verbal and performance intelligence.
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Welchsler Intellgience Scale for Children (WISC)
Definition
Designed for children 6-17 years
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Howard Gardner
Definition
-Views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in package.
-works with Savant syndrom
-thinks that theres a total of 8 intelligences.
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Charles Spearman
Definition
-Believed in one general intelligence
-developed factor analysis
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Alfred Binet
Definition
-Developed the stanford-Binet test in Europe.
-Mental age and the IQ
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Lewis Terman
Definition
-stanford-Binet test for americans.
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Neural activity of Intelligence
Definition
-Brain glucose consumption levels
- Perceptual speed
- neurological speed
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Carrie Buck
Definition
-Part of steralization
- Her and baby deemed feeble minded
-but she was really above average
-tests can be biased
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