AP Psychology - Cognition, Learning and Intelligence: Intelligence Test

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Intelligence

mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

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Intelligence Test

a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitude with a numerical score

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psychometrics

the science of measuring mental capacities and constructs

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Spearman’s general intelligence (g)

single factor for intelligence

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factor analysis

identifies different dimensions of a performance

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executive functioning

necessary to plan, focus attention, remember, and juggle multiple tasks (prefrontal cortex)

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gardner multiple intelligences

eight different types of intelligence (interpersonal, intrapersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, naturalistic)

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10 year rule

you need 10 years of practice to become an expert at something

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savant syndrome

strong in one subject, deficit in other

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stenberg’s triarchic theory

there are three intelligences (analytical, creative, practical)

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creative intelligence

use of experience in ways that foster insight

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practical intelligence

ability to read and adapt to the contexts of everyday life

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emotional intelligence

daniel goleman, measured in EQ

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intelligence in the brain

increased gray matter, and increased activity in frontal and parietal lobes

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francis galton

began modern intelligence movement through survey and using applied statistics

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alfred binet

helped developed first IQ test (finding students who needed special classes in france)

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mental age

the chronological age that most typically corresponds to the given level of performance

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lewis terman

edited binet’s test and created stanford-binet IQ test (mental age divided by biological age times 100)

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achievement test

to determine what a person has learned (AP test)

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aptitude test

designed to predict a person’s future performance or capacity to learn (college entrance exam)

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power test

increasing levels of difficulty to find the maximum difficulty level one can handle (leveled video games)

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group test

large number of people at once, less expensive, more objective

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individual test

one on one testing, can be more subjective

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weschler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)

most widely used intelligence test that contains a verbal and non verbal scale (WISC for children)

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standardization

defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of pretested group

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normal curve

bell curve (majority in the middle, less in the extremes

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flynn effect

IQ scores have been improving since the 1920s

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reliability

repeatability or consistency of a test

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split-half reliability

randomly dividing a test into two sections and correlating performance on the halves

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equivalent-form reliability

correlation between performance on the different forms of the test

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test-retest reliability

do scores change a lot when we take the test again

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inter-rater reliability

correlation of scoring between different scorers

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intra-rater reliability

correlation of scoring from the same scorer