Chapter8.txt

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• Intelligence
• Ability to solve problems; adapt to learn from everyday experiences

Individual levels of mental development relative to others

Age from birth

Individuals mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100

Symmetrical distribution of scores around a mean(curved graph)

• Provide iq scores as well as several composite scores
• Verbal comprehension index
• Working memory index
• Processing speed index

• Three main types of intelligence
• Analytical, creative, and practical

• 8 types of intelligence
• Verbal
• Mathematics
• Spatial
• Interpersonal
• Body-kinesthetic
• Musical
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalist skills

Correlates test scores into clusters or factor

Portion of the variance in population that is attributed to gense

Increase in world wide intelligence test

Project about enviromental influences on iq test

• Culturally Unbiased iq test
• First type: questions on information common to all ses and ethnic group
• Second type: no verbal questions used

Sternberg concluded that there are no cultural fair test

Anxiety that one behavior might confirm a negative stereotype about ones group

Focus on perceptual- motor, social interaction, and much less verbal than iq test for older children

Distinguishes normal from abnormal in infants

Motor, language, adaptive, and personal- social

Combined overall scores of motor,language, adaptive, and personal social

• Acess infants behavior and predict later devlopment
• Five scales:
• - cognitive, language, motor, adaptive, and socioemotional

• Focuses on infant ability to process information
• Encoding objects attributes
• Detecting objects similarity and differences
• Forming, retrieving mental representation

Accumulated information and verbal skills, which increase with age

Are the stable, consistent ways in which individuals are different from one another

He viewed intelligence involving weighing opinion carefully and acting judiciously,as well as developing strategies to improve shortcomings

Intelligence consit of complex cognitive processes such as memory, imagery, comprehension and judgement

Made revisions on alfred binet test and devloped extensive norms and provided detail clear instructions for each problem on the test/ also came up with the iq test

• A component in witch is a basic use of information processing
• Reatin or retrieve information, to transfer information, to plan, make decsions, and solve problems

Do not have high iq scores but has an insightful creative mind

Score low on iq test/ know information about getting along in the world that you are not taught in school

The ability to think in words and use language to express meaning ( authors, journalists

The ability to carry out mathematical operations( scientists, engineers)

The ability to think 3d (artist)

The ability to manipulate objects and be physically adept (athletes)

A sensitivity to music

The ability to understand a effectively interact with others ( successful teachers)

The ability to understand ones self (pyschologists)

The ability to precieve and express emotions accurately

The ability to reason abstractly, begins to decline in middle adulthood

Ability to understand ideas expressed in words

Clarified the distinction between those aspects of the aging mind that decline and those that remain stable or even improve

• Hardware of the mind
• Speed and accuracy of processes involved in sensory input and have more biological influenced

• Culture based software programs of the mind, include reading writing and language comprehension
• Knowledge about self and lifeskills
• can improve with age

Expert knowledge on practical aspects of life permitting exellent judgment about important matters

Is a condition of limited mental ability and have low iq, difficulty adapting to everyday life and sxhibits these characteristics by age 18

Mental retardation caused by a genetic disorder or brain damage

No evidence of organic or brain damage

Have higher intelligence or superior talent for something

Begain to master an area earlier then their peers

The ability to think about something in novel and unusual ways and come up with unique, good solutions

Produces many answers to the same question( that's why its no creativity on iq)

• Preparation
• Incubation
• Insight
• Evaluation
• Elaberation

• Flexible and Playful
• Inner motivation
• Willingness to risk
• Objective evaluation

Technique that encourage people to come up with creative ideas in a group