PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Intelligence, Block Design, Divergent Thinking

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Learn quickly and be articulate about what you know. Verbal intelligence: creative writer, knowledgeable about particular field, reads with high comprehension. Practical intelligence: see all aspects of a problem, make good decisions, poses problems in an optimal way. Social intelligence: accepts other for what they are, has social conscience, thinks before speaking and doing, sensitive to others" need and desires. Iq = mental age/ chronological age x 100. A child"s mental age indicated that he/she displayed the mental ability typical of a child that chronological (actual) age: modern test. Weschler adult intelligence scale revised (wais-r) Less depends on verbal ability, required non-verbal reasoning. The normal distribution: a symmetric, bell-shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many characteristics are dispersed in the population. Iq: determined from validated assessment battery => narrower definition of intelligence. +verbal scale: information, comprehension, arithmetic, similarities, digit span, vocabulary. + performance scale: digit symbol, picture completion, block design. Theories of intelligence: a general factor theory.