PSY 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Heritability, Flynn Effect, Robert Sternberg
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Intelligence test: diagnostic tool designed to measure overall thinking ability. Fluid intelligence: capacity to learn new ways of solving problems, decline with age. Crystallized intelligence: accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time, increase with age. Multiple intelligences: idea that people vary markedly in their ability levels across different domains of intellectual skill. Triarchic model:robert sternberg, three distinct types of intelligence, analytical, practical, creative. Analytical intelligence: ability to reason logically, closely related to g. Practical intelligence: tacit intelligence, ability to solve real-world problems involving other people, street smarts . Creative intelligence: ability to come up with novel and effective answers to questions. Reaction time: speed of responding to a stimulus. Stanford-binet iq test: intelligence test based on the measure developed by binet and simon, adapted by terman of stanford. Intelligence quotient: systematic means of quantifying differences among people in their intelligence. Mental age: age corresponding to the average individual"s performance on an intelligence test.
