Intelligence and Creativity

Flashcards relating to intelligence, creativity and development.

Intelligence (as defined by the APA Dictionary of Psychology)

The ability to derive information, learn from experience, adapt to the environment, understand, and correctly utilize thought and reason.

Fluid Intelligence

The ability to use your mind actively to solve novel problems; believed to represent raw information processing power.

Crystallized Intelligence

Intelligence acquired through schooling and other life experiences.

Mental Age

Level of age-graded problems that a child is able to solve.

Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

(Mental age / Chronological age) x 100

Normed Assessment (Test norms)

Standards of normal performance expressed as average scores and the range of scores around the average, based on the performance of a large, representative sample.

Standard Deviation (in psychometric testing)

Measure of how tightly the scores are clustered around the mean score.

Giftedness

Having an IQ score of 130 or higher and showing special abilities in areas valued by society.

Intellectual Disability

Having significantly below-average intellectual functioning (score of 70 or below on an IQ test) and limitations in areas of adaptive behavior.

Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory

Intelligence is structured in a hierarchy.

Savant Syndrome

Extraordinary talent in a particular area displayed by a person otherwise intellectually challenged.

Prodigies

Children who display ability levels comparable to adult professionals.

Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory

Establish and achieve reasonable goals, optimize your strengths, minimize weaknesses, adapt to the environment, and use all three components of intelligence.

Creativity

Ability to produce novel responses appropriate in context and valued by others.

Creativity

Thinking requires divergent thinking.

Convergent Thinking

IQ tests measure convergent thinking.

Divergent Thinking

Requires divergent thinking

Creative Thinking Skills

How flexibly and imaginatively people approach problems

Motivation

Intrinsic is more effective than extrinsic

Synthetic Skill

See problems in new ways.

Analytical Skill

Recognize what ideas are worth

Practical Skill

How to persuade others

Legislative Style

Thinking and making decisions in new ways.

Bayley Scales of Infant Development

Summarizes how well or poorly the infant performs in comparison with a large norm group.

Developmental Quotient (DQ)

More associated with later intelligence

Merrill-Palmer-Revised Scales of Development (MPR)

Provides a “global” assessment.

Cumulative-Deficit Hypothesis

Describes how impoverished environments inhibit intellectual growth and negative effects accumulate over time.

Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory

Assessment of the intellectual stimulation of the home environment

Flynn Effect

Phenomenon over the 20th century where average IQ scores have increased in all countries studied.

Reverse Flynn Effect

Average IQ scores are decreasing.

Terminal Drop

IQ declines due to poor health, diseases, and unstimulating lifestyle.