Chapter 12: Cognitive Psychology: Intelligence and Testing

The ________ had attempted to measure intelligence by means of reaction time tests.

a group of people who represent the entire population.

supports the need to restandardize because the data indicates that the population has become smarter over the past 50 years.

is a measure of how consistent a test is in the measurements it provides.

refers to the extent that a test measures what it intends to measure.

analytical, practical, and creative intelligence

verbal and mathematical (these are the two traditionally measured by IQ tests) as well as musical, spatial, kinesthetic, environmental, interpersonal (people perceptive), and intrapersonal (insightful, self-awareness)

is the degree to which the subject’s results are due to the questions being asked and not another variable.

is true validity—that is, the degree to which results from the test can be generalized to the “real world.”

in which ambiguous stimuli, open to interpretation, are presented

in which participants answer a standard series of questions.

gauge abilities in certain areas.

assess knowledge gained; the Advanced Placement exams are of this type.

which evaluate a person’s abilities.

can be defined as goal-directed adaptive thinking.

had attempted to measure intelligence by means of reaction time tests.

is an essential component of intelligence.

was a French psychologist who first began to measure children’s intelligence for the French government.

modified Binet’s test to create a test commonly referred to as the Stanford-Binet Test.

Most modern psychologists measure an aspect of intelligence

proposed that there was a general intelligence (or g factor) that was the basis of all other intelligence.

a statistical measure for analyzing test data.

a researcher in the field of intelligence, posited that we need to think of intelligence more broadly because intelligence can come in many different forms.

a psychologist at Rutgers, has done recent work on the importance of emotional intelligence (being able to recognize people’s intents and motivations) and has created programs for enhancing one’s emotional intelligence.

is accumulated knowledge.

is the ability to process information quickly and to solve new problems.

is sometimes computed by comparing the IQs of identical twins who were raised separately.

also known as the heritability index, is a measure of how much an individual's traits are determined by genetics.

refers to low levels of intelligence and adaptive behavior.

is a rare phenomenon in which individuals with low IQ scores display certain specific skills at a very high aptitude.