Intelligence

Intelligence

• refers to the abilities involved in learning or having adaptive abilities

Achievement Test

• tests that gauge a person's mastery and knowledge of subjects

Aptitude Test

• tests used to assess talent for specific types of mental ability

Convergent Thinking

• narrowing down a list of alternatives to converge on a single answer

Divergent Thinking

• trying to expand the range of alternatives by generating many possible solutions

Factor Analysis

• statistical analysis of correlations among many variables to identify closely related clusters of variables

Gardner

• theory of multiple intelligences
• logical-mathematics, spatial,bodily-kinesthetic, etc

IQ Formula

• a child's mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100

Mental Age

• a score that indicates that a child displays the mental ability typical of the child's age

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

• created by Wechsler
• most widely used intelligence test
• it measures verbal and nonverbal intelligence

Stanford-Binet

• widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test
• revised by Terman

Terman

• revised Binet's IQ test
• established norms for american children

Spearman

• found that specific mental talents were highly correlated
• concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which we labeled as g (general ability)