INTELI TEST

• Binet-Simon Scale


  • Defined intelligence based on IQ as the ratio of mental age to chronological age with 100 as the average
• Thorndike’s Stimulus Response Theory


  • Three broad classes of intellectual functioning: Intelligence test, Mechanical Intelligence, Social Intelligence
• Mental Age

  The average age of an individual who achieves a particular level of performance on a test
• L.L Thurstone’s Multiple Factors of Intelligence


  • Identified 7 primary mental abilities, factor analysis to identify different dimensions of performance
• Intelligence

  A multifaceted capacity that manifests itself in different ways across the lifespan
• Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence


  • Contextual Intelligence, Experiential Learning, Componential Intelligence
• Terman’s Stanford Binet Individual Intelligence Test


  • The classic formula for IQ, considered the best individual test of intelligence
• Spearman’s Two-Factor Theory of Intelligence


  • General Intelligence (g) underlies specific mental abilities, measured by every task on an intelligence test, combination of "g factor" and "s factor" for intellectual acts
• Raymond Cattell’s Theory on Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence

  • Fluid Intelligence - non-verbal, adaptive learning capabilities, Crystallized Intelligence - accumulation of learned information and skills
• Two kinds of Component

  • Performance
  • Metacomponents
• Linguistic Intelligence


  • The ability to use language to excite, please, convince, stimulate, or convey information
• Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence


  • The ability to use fine and gross motor skills in sports, performing arts, and crafts production
• Naturalist Intelligence


  • The ability to identify and classify patterns in nature, using it to relate to the environment
• Performance components

  Used in actual execution of tasks, includes encoding, comparing, administering the instruction of metacomponents
• Linguistic Intelligence


  • Novelist, poets, teachers, journalists, storytellers, actors, orators, comedians, politicians
• Musical Intelligence


  • Composers, musicians, opera artists, singers, rappers, sound recording artists
• Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence


  • Ballet and folk dancers, choreographers, sculptors, professional athletes, surgeons, watchmakers, carpenters, circus performers
• The first intelligence tests were developed by the French Psychologist
• Intrapersonal Intelligence


  • The ability to gain access to and understand one's inner feelings, dreams, and ideas
• Musical Intelligence


  • The ability to enjoy, perform, or compose musical pieces
• Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences proposes eight distinct spheres of personality
• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence


  • Mathematicians, scientists, computer engineers, programmers, inventors, accountants, lawyers, detectives, economists
• Intelligence Testing is a method of assessing mental aptitudes and comparing them to others using numerical scores
• Spatial Intelligence

  • Urban planners, engineers, surveyors, explorers, map designers, florists, interior designers, photographers, movie directors, set designers, cartoonists
• Interpersonal Intelligence


  • Teachers, social workers, doctors, nurses, counselors, priests, nuns, politicians
• Component

  Cognitive mechanism that carry out adaptive behavior to novel situations, equivalent to skills, knowledge, and competencies acquired through education and experience
• Naturalist Intelligence


  • People who love the outdoors, animals, field trips, and pick up on subtle differences in meanings
• Componential Intelligence

  Emphasizes the effectiveness of informational processing
• Metacomponents

  Higher-order executive processes used in planning, monitoring, and evaluating one's working memory program, involved in planning and monitoring completion
• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence


  • The ability to explore patterns, categories, and relationships by manipulating objects or symbols, and to experiment in controlled orderly ways
• Spatial Intelligence


  • The ability to perceive and mentally manipulate forms or objects, perceive and create tension, balance, and composition in visual or spatial displays
• Interpersonal Intelligence


  • The ability to understand and get along with others
• Genetic Influence


  The most genetically similar people have the most similar scores
• Stereotype Threat is a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated on a negative stereotype
• The first intelligence tests were developed by the French Psychologist Alfred Binet
• Aggressiveness with peers, initiative, high need for achievement, competitive striving, curiosity, self-confidence, and emotional stability are some personality factors associated with gains in measured intelligence over time
• Girls may generally outperform on language skill–related tasks, although these differences may be minimized when the assessment is conducted by computer
• Intelligence Test

  A method of assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them to those of others, using numerical scores
• Stanford-Binet

  A widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test, revised by Terman at Stanford University
• Group Differences

  Group difference and environmental impact