PSYCH 100 Midterm: Exam 3 Study Guide.pdf

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: tamararahhal

Document Summary

Intelligence: the capacity to understand the world, think rationally, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges. Fluid intelligence: re ects information processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory. Crystallized intelligence: accumulation of information, skills, and strategies that are learned through experience and can be applied in problem-solving situations. G-factor: a single, general factor for mental ability assumed to underlie intelligence in some early theories. Gardner"s multiple intelligences: musical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, linguistic, naturalist, standardization: Give the test to a large group of people. Look at the mean score and the distribution of scores; you need a normal curve: reliability: The test must yield the same scores each time it is given to the same quantity. Constructing intelligence tests: for a test to be valid it must meet 3 crucial requirements: split-half reliability, test-retest reliability, validity: The test must measure what it claims to measure.