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Intelligence
mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
Intelligence Test
a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitude with a numerical score
psychometrics
the science of measuring mental capacities and constructs
Spearman’s general intelligence (g)
single factor for intelligence
factor analysis
identifies different dimensions of a performance
executive functioning
necessary to plan, focus attention, remember, and juggle multiple tasks (prefrontal cortex)
gardner multiple intelligences
eight different types of intelligence (interpersonal, intrapersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, naturalistic)
10 year rule
you need 10 years of practice to become an expert at something
savant syndrome
strong in one subject, deficit in other
stenberg’s triarchic theory
there are three intelligences (analytical, creative, practical)
creative intelligence
use of experience in ways that foster insight
practical intelligence
ability to read and adapt to the contexts of everyday life
emotional intelligence
daniel goleman, measured in EQ
intelligence in the brain
increased gray matter, and increased activity in frontal and parietal lobes
francis galton
began modern intelligence movement through survey and using applied statistics
alfred binet
helped developed first IQ test (finding students who needed special classes in france)
mental age
the chronological age that most typically corresponds to the given level of performance
lewis terman
edited binet’s test and created stanford-binet IQ test (mental age divided by biological age times 100)
achievement test
to determine what a person has learned (AP test)
aptitude test
designed to predict a person’s future performance or capacity to learn (college entrance exam)
power test
increasing levels of difficulty to find the maximum difficulty level one can handle (leveled video games)
group test
large number of people at once, less expensive, more objective
individual test
one on one testing, can be more subjective
weschler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)
most widely used intelligence test that contains a verbal and non verbal scale (WISC for children)
standardization
defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of pretested group
normal curve
bell curve (majority in the middle, less in the extremes
flynn effect
IQ scores have been improving since the 1920s
reliability
repeatability or consistency of a test
split-half reliability
randomly dividing a test into two sections and correlating performance on the halves
equivalent-form reliability
correlation between performance on the different forms of the test
test-retest reliability
do scores change a lot when we take the test again
inter-rater reliability
correlation of scoring between different scorers
intra-rater reliability
correlation of scoring from the same scorer
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