AP PSYCH CH 11 - INTELLIGENCE

Lewis Terman, who worked at Stanford used Binet's concept of mental age & designed the

A general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of task

Psychologists use ___to assess individuals' mental aptitudes and compare them w/those of others

Average score range on the Wechsler is considered

Savant syndrome seems to support the notion that intelligence is

The ASVAB test is used by the military to determine a recruit's potential abilities. It is:

Test that measure what they say the measure are said to be

Considered to be in the range of normal intelligence on the Wechsler

The old IQ Score Formula

Normal scores on the Wechsler would best be described as

One way to determine if a test is reliable is to use the ____ procedure

Person who has limited intellectual abilities overall, but one area in which they excel

Intelligence that involves abstract thinking and speedy mental processing

Stat procedure to idclusters of closely related test items or even personality characteristics

Test given to group w/same instruct, time limits,& pre-tested so scores can be comp w/ other is

If a test yields similar results each time it is administered, we say it has a high degree of

The chron age that most typically corresponds to a given level of intell test performance

Driver's test has us perform skills used driving-Most would say this test has a high degree of

Individuals w/Wechsler scores that are more than 2 standard deviations below the mean may have

Girls are most likely to outperform boys in a

Highly intelligent people's brain tend to have more

JT's grandpa had diff learning to use all the functions in his new car-This task requires

1 group of students takes odd questions-other the even quest & comp mean helps detif a test has

Percentage of people on any normal distribution fall w/in 3 standard deviations of the mean

Highly intelligent people's brains indicate they have more

Telling girlsbefore maj exam-girls usually do poorly on exam-shown to have a neg impact on perf

The degree to which the differences between each of intelligences w/ other is called

Tests that measure what they say they measure are said to have

The AP Psych assesses how much you know about psychology. It is a(n)

Tests that measure what you have learned...accumulated knowledge

In stressful, embarrassing sitAJ can maintain her poise & help others feel comfortable..high

Most people's Wechsler Intellgence Scores will fall 1 standard dev from the mean, which is ___%

A person may possible be considered intellectually disabled if their score falls 

JT found scores for all 6 of his classes were norm distributed w/the same mean-The test shows

Nicole scored high on the SAT, but she freq loses her temper & needlessly picks at her friends

Feared his intell test & concept of mental age would be used to exclude kids not help them

Person scores a 70 on WAIS w/mean of 100 & standard deviation of 15-what is their z score

Ability to control one's impulses & delay immediate pleasures for long term goals shows:

Mental ability to learn from experience

Three intelligences according to Sternberg's Triarchic Theory

He is credited with concept of MENTAL AGE

Binet originally developed his intelligence test using mental age to assess

He is responsible for the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence...a multiple intelligence theory

Father of modern psychology-created 1st lab to study human behavior in Leipzig, Germ in 1800's

He disagreed w/Spearman that intelligence is simply 1 underlying factor...he said it is many

The original IQ formula-also used on the Stanford-Binet Test

Two strategies for determining reliability of a test include

About what percent of people's scores fall between 70 and 130 (normal) on the WAIS

The most popular & widely used IQ tests w/multiple subtest today is the the

RJ has is 10. He has a mental age of 8. What is his IQ using the old formula?

Statistic that indicates how alike or different scores are from the mean of the distribution

TJ is mildly intellectually disabled. His score on the Wechsler likely falls between

SAT has proven to be a good indicator of student success in 1st year of college-it has a high

Because the tasks on driver's test are actual things we do when driving it has a high degree of

Brain size does not seem to as impt to intelligence as ________________

He created a theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) that started with 7 areas and then expanded

The smaller/lower the ____ the more alike scores & the closer they are to the mean.

Now discredited theory that listening to classical music made kids IQ scores increase

Refers to pattern over the last few decades of rising intelligence scores

Stanford-Binet, WAIS, and WISC tests are all types of

Sam gave 1 group the odd questions & a 2nd group the evens-He did this to det if his test has:

Designed pop IQ test today w/several subtests & areas of abilities-has a ver for each age group

He identified intelligence as one underlying "g factor"

School psych would most likely use this to determine if a student has a learning disability

Tests that are designed to measure & predict your capacity/ability to learn

6yr old responds to original Stan-Binet w/proficiency of an avg. 8yr old was said to have IQ of