Unit 10 - Intelligence

• Intelligence: the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills
• Psychometric approach: measures performance not ability
• Factor Analysis: Analysis of multiple tasks
• Early Binet-simon Test: intended to define "normal" and abnormal, added mental age
• Spearmen: coined Special (s) and General mental (g) abilities
• Thurstone: had "primary mental Ability" with seven distinct abilities
• Guilford had structure-of-intellect and had three levels: Content(What is being asked), operations (what kind of thinking is being asked to preform), and product(what is the answer being asked for).
• Cattell and Horn: Fluid vs Crystallized intelligence
• Hierarchical Models of Intelligence: groing from the basics to complex
• John Carrolls Three stratum theory of intelligence: three tiered system that is like a stat screen for humans
• Sternberg triarchic theory of intelligence: knowledge, ability to adapt, and experimental
• Standford Binet Intelligence scale: the IQ test, (Mental age / actual age x 100)
• Modern test IQ now uses test norms and deviation IQ
• Wechsler scales: both verbal and nonverbal tests, used to assess cognitive functioning
• Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children: Measure of fluid intelligence (which shapes balence the scale)
• Dynamic Assessment: involves competent instruction and/or scaffolding
• On the bayley scales, if it is 70 or less, that is significant developmental delay
• Many Children show fluctuation in IQ scores: enviroment is important, fairly stable, Cumulative Deficit Hypothesis (there will be a deficite if younger children do not learn early)
• IQ test predict: scholastic achivement, occupation, education, life satisfaction
• Intellectual Disability: three critieria Deficits in:

  intellect functioning

  adaptive fuctioning

  onset during the developing period
• Heredity (genetics)

  Identical Twin (identical twins correlate more than Fraternal twins)

  Adoption Studies (resemble thier bio parents more than there adoptive parents)
• Flynn Effect: Raising of the average IQ points over the decades (from 1930)
• Eviromental factors:

  parental attitudes

  Socioeconomic Status

  Socioculture groups
• Giftedness: high intellectual potential with singular talent
• Creativity: divergent thinking, generating new and unique ideas
• Divergent: process and generate new ideas
• Convergent: useing concrete knowledge to solve problems
• Multicomponent presecitve: creativity has multiple outlits (art, emotions, building)