Psychology Chapter 9: Thinking & Intelligence

Who did Alfred Binet work with?

Gardner’s Eight Intelligences: ability to use the body to learn, express ideas, and solve problems

score is not biased by the test taker’s cultural and social background.

Gardner’s Eight Intelligences: ability to understand and interact with others effectively

a measure of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean and it was set to 15 dealing with IQ

Gardner’s Eight Intelligences: understand/use knowledge of one’s thoughts, feelings, and motivations to guide life

Sternberg’s theory of intelligence: problem-solving and reasoning abilities

Sternberg’s theory of intelligence: solving day to day challenges in a particular field

determining set procedures that are used whenever test is given/giving test to people across desired reference group

Gardner’s Eight Intelligences: ability to identify, understand, and interact with the natural world

Gardner’s Eight Intelligences: ability to perceive, understand, & express musical forms like rhythm, pitch, and timbre

the moment at which the solution to a problem suddenly becomes clear

Gardner’s Eight Intelligences: ability to use language to express and understand complex meanings

Gardner’s Eight Intelligences: ability to understand and use visual information in the real and abstract world

actual age in number of years

100

facts, information, and details that we have learned over our lifetime.

Who commissioned Alfred Binet?

Gardner’s Eight Intelligences: ability to think logically, reason mathematically, and understand complex concepts

the capacity to process information and develop solutions to problems

A good intelligence test is not valid, reliable, and standardized

Sternberg’s theory of intelligence: thinking outside the box and coming up with novel solutions to problems