2. Section 1 Theories of Intelligence• Learning Goals:
– Students should be able to answer the following:
1: What arguments support intelligence as one general mental ability, and what arguments support the
idea of multiple distinct abilities?
2: How do Gardner’s and Sternberg’s theories of multiple intelligences differ?
3: What makes up emotional intelligence?
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3. Fact or Falsehood…
• 1. Research suggests that a common ingredient of expert performance in chess,
dancing, sports, and music is about a decade of intense daily practice.
• 2. Some rationally smart people have difficulty processing and managing social
information.
• 3. There is a modest positive correlation between brain density and intelligence
scores.
• 4. Highly educated people die with more synapses than their less-educated peers.
• 5. The concern with individual differences in intelligence is strictly a twentieth-
century American phenomenon.
• 6. Today’s Americans score higher on intelligence tests than Americans did in the
1930s
• 7. Among the intellectually disabled, males outnumber females by 50 percent. .
• 8. As adopted children grow older, their intelligence scores become more similar to
those of their biological parents than to those of their adoptive parents.
• 9. Recent research findings support a “Mozart effect,” that is, that having infants
listen to classical music boosts their cognitive ability.
• 10. Aptitude scores are a much better predictor of the college performance of Whites
than of Blacks.
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Basic Theories of Intelligence
• Spearman’s Factor Theory
– Factor g (General) & Factor s (Specific)
– A single underlying intelligence correlated with specifics
– Developed Factor Analysis
• Thurstone’s Theory of Seven Primary Abilities
– 56 different tests that identified 7 primary abilities
– Examples: Word fluency, Perceptual Speed, Memory
– Later becomes the SAT
• Howard Gardner’s Mulitple Intelligence Theory
– Based on Savant Syndrome
– Has little research basis and statistical evidence
• Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory
– Creativity, Practical, Analytic
• Mayer and Salovey’s Emotional Intelligence Theory
– Also Known as EQ
– Made popular by Dan Goleman in 1995
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Intelligence Theories Review: Who Said
It?
1. “If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just
about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in
other things.”
2. “Intelligence means a particular quantity derived from
statistical operations. Under certain conditions the score of a
person at a mental test can be divided into two factors, one of
which is always the same in all tests…”
3. “We define intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that
involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings
and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this
information to guide one's thinking and actions.”
4. “Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical
intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two
dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job
success than IQ.”
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23. Learning Goal:
1: What arguments support intelligence as one general mental ability, and what arguments support the
idea of multiple distinct abilities?
2: How do Gardner’s and Sternberg’s theories of multiple intelligences differ?
3: What makes up emotional intelligence?
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24. Section 2 Intelligence Findings
• Learning Goals:
– Students should be able to answer the following:
4: To what extent is intelligence related to brain anatomy and neural processing
speed?
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Intelligence & the Brain
• Brain Anatomy
– Small positive correlation between
brain size and IQ
– Brain size decreases with age as does
verbal intelligence
• Brain Function
– Frontal Lobe contains workspace for
organizing information
• Perceptual Speed ★
– Those who perceive quickly tend to
score higher on intelligence tests
• Neurological Speed ★
– Those who score high on intelligence
tests tend to have faster brain
response times
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Example Reaction
Time Test for
Intelligence
How many green X’s?
X
X
X
V
F
V
V
F
V
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Intelligence & Creativity
• Creativity is…
– The ability to produce original and
valuable ideas
– More divergent thinking (generating
multiple solutions to a problem
– Little correlation with intelligence past
120
– Stems from frontal lobe
• Components of Creativity
– Expertise ★
– Imaginative Thinking
– Adventuresome Personality ★
– Intrinsic Motivation ★
– Creative Environment (Think Google)
• Bottom Line
– Creativity & Intelligence are not linked
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2 minutes:
Think of as
many uses for
a paperclip as
you can
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Critical Thinking…
• Many schools subscribe to the idea that perceptual and
neurological speed are indicative of intelligence. These
schools assess students with timed tests, and students who
are identified as requiring special education are given extended
time for taking tests. This type of practice implicitly
communicates that schools equate processing speed with
intelligence.
• Do you think these practices are helpful or harmful to learning?
31. Learning Goal:
4: To what extent is intelligence related to brain anatomy and neural processing
speed?
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32. Section 3 Assessing Intelligence and Modern
Intelligence• Learning Goals:
– Students should be able to answer the following:
5: When and why were intelligence tests created?
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History of Intelligence Testing
• Sir Francis Galton
– Father of Behavior Genetics (coined term nature/nurture)
– First to document theories of intelligence through inheritance
• Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon ★
– Designed a test to identify student’s reasoning abilities and
place them into appropriate classes
– Measured “mental age” through reasoning abilities
• Lewis Terman ★
– Stanford Professor who modified Binet’s Test for American
Students (1916)
– Created the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test to study people
of gifted level intelligence
– Believed in Eugenics and want people tested for reproductive
purposes
• William Stern★
– Coined the Term Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
– Formula: Mental Age/Chronological Age (x) 100
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Modern Intelligence Tests
• Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
– Originally adapted by Lewis Terman
– In its 5th
revision and still in use today
• Army Alpha Test
– First developed during World War I by Robert Yerkes
– Considered the first mass distributed intelligence test
• Wechsler Intelligence Tests ★
– Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and WISC
– Subscales in include verbal and performance assessments
• Wonderlic Cognitive Abilities Test
– 12 minutes, 50 questions
– Short Business IQ tests that correlate well with intelligence
– Also used to scout NFL draft picks
• Internet IQ Tests
– Mensa.org
– Not good predictors of IQ
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46. Army Alpha Test Sample (Yerkes)
1. A company advanced 6 miles and retreated 2 miles. How far was it then from its first
position?
2. A dealer bought some mules for $1,200. He sold them for $1,500, making $50 on each mule.
How many mules were there?
3. Thermometers are useful because
A. They regulate temperature
B. They tell us how warm it is
C. They contain mercury
4. A machine gun is more deadly than a rifle, because it
A. Was invented more recently
B. Fires more rapidly
C. Can be used with less training
5. For these next two items, examinees first had to unscramble the words to form a sentence,
and then indicate if the sentence was true or false.
a. happy is man sick always a
b. day it snow does every not
6. The next two items required examinees to determine the next two numbers in each
sequence.
a. 3 4 5 6 7 8
b. 18 14 17 13 16 12
7. A portion of the Army Alpha required examinees to solve analogies.
a. shoe — foot. hat — kitten, head, knife, penny
b. eye — head. window — key, floor, room, door
8. In these next two examples, examinees were required to complete the sentence by selecting
one of the four possible answers.
a. The apple grows on a shrub, vine, bush, tree
b. Denim is a dance, food, fabric, drink
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Quick Section Assessment
1. According to the Stanford-Binet formula for an intelligence
quotient (IQ), the IQ of a ten-year-old child with a mental age of
eight and a half years is
A. 85
B. 95
C. 100
D. 105
E. 115
2. Alfred Binet’s efforts to measure intelligence were directed at
A. Testing the worth of various theoretical definitions
B. Operationally defining one theory of intelligence
C. Predicting children’s success in school
D. Selecting workers for successful job performance
E. Establishing the learning potential of French military recruits
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50. Learning Goal:
5: When and why were intelligence tests created?
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51. Section 4 Principles of Test
Construction• Learning Goals:
– Students should be able to answer the following:
6: What’s the difference between aptitude and achievement tests, and how can
we develop and evaluate them?
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Basic Principles of Test Construction
• Standardization of Tests
– Making sure everyone administers the test in
the same way to make it fair.
– ‘Norming’ the Test ★
• Defining scores based on a pretested group
(compare scores)
• Has to be done every few years to keep scores valid
• Normal Distribution ★
– The Bell Curve or Normal Curve
– 68% of people fall between -1 and +1 standard
deviations of the mean
– 95% of people fall between -2 and +2 standard
deviations of the mean
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Principles of Test ConstructionPrinciples of Test Construction
• Reliability
– Are the scores consistent?
– Split-Half Reliability: Dividing the
test into two equal halves
(odds/evens) and assessing how
consistent the scores are.
– Test-Retest Reliability: Take the
test one day and then take it
again a few weeks later to
compare the scores.
– Inter-rater Reliability: Two people
observing the same behavior
should score it the same way
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Principles of Test ConstructionPrinciples of Test Construction
• Validity: Does the test
measure what it is suppose
to?
– Achievement/Classroom Tests
• Content Validity:
– Does the exam actually test what it is
suppose to?
– Example: A poorly designed physics
test has questions on it that were not
covered in class or by the textbook.
• Face Validity:
– On the surface, does the test appear
to measure the subject matter
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Principles of Test ConstructionPrinciples of Test Construction
Validity: Does the test measure what it is
suppose to?
–Aptitude/Psychological Measures
• Criterion-Related/Predictive Validity:
– Refers to the function of a test in predicting/relating to
a particular behavior
– Example: An aptitude test designed to predict if a
person will be a good pilot should correlate to pilot
performance scores
• Construct Validity:
– When measuring a construct like personality you
should correlate your results with a variety of different
measures to eliminate or confirm it works.
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Section Assessment
1. A test that is labeled an achievement test is most likely to be
given to
A. predict an individual’s ability to succeed in a particular job
B. allow a student to be exempted from a college course
C. assess the mental age of a gifted eight-year-old
D. determine whether a person is an extrovert or an introvert
E. investigate an individual’s cognitive style
2. The performance of the group on which an IQ test is
standardized sets the
A. method of administration most suitable for the test
B. extent to which IQ is determined by environment
C. criteria for the diagnostic significance of intelligence
D. degree of validity of the IQ test
E. norms against which performance of later test takers can be
evaluated
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Section Assessment
1. All of the following are reasons for requiring clearly specified
procedures for the administration and scoring of assessment measures,
such as standardized tests, EXCEPT to
A. allow comparisons among scores of various test takers
B. reduce the possible effects of extraneous variables on scores
C. increase the reliability and validity of the test scores
D. decrease the amount of time needed to administer the test
E. increase the objectivity of the score procedures used
2. In a normal distribution, approximately what percent of the scores
occur within one standard deviation above and below the mean?
A. 5%
B. 16%
C. 33%
D. 68%
E. 97%
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65. Learning Goal:
6: What’s the difference between aptitude and achievement tests, and how can we
develop and evaluate them?
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66. Section 5: The Dynamics of Intelligence
• Learning Goals:
– Students should be able to answer the following:
– 7: How stable are intelligence scores over the life span?
– 8: What are the traits of those at the low and high intelligence extremes?
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Intelligence: Stability vs. Change
• About age 7 intelligence stabilizes
• Habituation at age 2-7 months is an
early sign of intelligence
• Early readers tend to have higher
intelligence (early talkers do not)
• Scottish Longitudinal Study shows
that intelligence at age 11 still
correlates at age 77 (r = +.66)
• Flynn Effect Reasons:
– Increase in education
– Increase in technology
– Better nutrition
– Smaller family sizes (increased
individual attention)
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81. Learning Goal:
– 7: How stable are intelligence scores over the life span?
– 8: What are the traits of those at the low and high intelligence extremes?
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82. Section 6 Genetic and Environmental
Influence on Intelligence• Learning Goals:
– Students should be able to answer the following:
9: What does evidence reveal about hereditary and environmental influences on
intelligence?
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97. Learning Goal:
9: What does evidence reveal about hereditary and environmental influences on
intelligence?
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98. Section 7 Gender and Cultural
Differences and Testing Bias• Learning Goals:
– Students should be able to answer the following:
10: How and why do gender and racial groups differ in mental ability scores?
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The differences between men and women as they relate to
intelligence
1. Girls are better spellers
2. Girls are verbally fluent and have large vocabularies
3. Girls are better at locating objects
4. Girls are more sensitive to touch, taste, and color
5. Boys outnumber girls in counts of underachievement
6. Boys outperform at math problem solving, but under perform at math
computation
7. Women detect emotions more easily than men do
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* Testosterone in the womb may increase visual spatial skills (like playing chess)
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Reasons Why Environment Affects
Intelligence
1. Races are remarkably alike genetically.
2. Race is a social category.
3. Asian students outperform North American
students on math achievement and aptitude tests.
4. Today’s better prepared populations would
outperform populations of the 1930s on intelligence
tests.
5. White and black infants tend to score equally well
on tests predicting future intelligence.
6. Different ethnic groups have experienced periods of
remarkable achievement in different eras.
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More possible explanations for why different ethnic groups
average different intelligence scores.
• Why do Asians outperform Whites
on math and aptitude tests?
• Why do Blacks, Native Americans
and Hispanics have slightly lower
intelligence scores than Whites?
– Reason # 1: Genetics and
Heritability
– Reason # 2: Socioeconomics
Disadvantage
– Reason # 3: Stereotype
Threat/Vulnerability
– Reason # 4: IQ Tests are Culturally
Bias
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Why do we have
such stereotypes?
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Reason # 1: Genetic and Heritability Components
• Some argue that the heritability of intelligence is about
60-80%, meaning that the variation of intelligence from
one person to another is more likely due to genetics
– This DOES NOT mean that you inherit 60-80% of your
intelligence from your parents!!!
– Some researchers see this to mean that genetics among
groups (like Blacks and Hispanics) play a role in
determining intelligence scores.
• HOWEVER-:
– Race is much more a social category and not biological
– White and black infants tend to score equally well on tests
predicting future intelligence.
– People raised in similar environments tend to have similar
test scores
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Possible explanations for why different ethnic groups
average different intelligence scores.
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Reason # 2: Socioeconomics Disadvantages
• People who grow up in poorer
communities tend to:
– Have lesser nutrition and
doctor’s visits
– Have larger family sizes
– Be from single-parent
households
– Are exposed to fewer books
– Have less privacy to
concentrate on studying
– Attend poorer-quality schools
– May be influenced by crime and
drugs
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Possible explanations for why different ethnic groups
average different intelligence scores.
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Reason # 3: Stereotype Threat/Vulnerability
• A stereotype threat is a self-confirming concern that
one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
• This phenomenon appears in some instances in
intelligence testing among African-Americans and
among women of all colors.
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Possible explanations for why different ethnic groups
average different intelligence scores.
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Reason # 4: Culturally Biased IQ Testing
• Who creates most IQ tests? - Whites
• Do IQ tests measure knowledge more
than ability?
• Are questions culturally specific?- Think
of the WWI IQ test…
– Cup & Saucer, “L, el and ell”
• Hungarians and Italian immigrants of the
early 1900’s were seen as feeble-minded
because of low IQ test scores.
• Today’s tests are seen as unbiased
because they put more emphasis of
ability and are given in a variety of
languages
• How would you design a culturally
nonbiased test?
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An example of
a culturally fair
IQ test
question
Possible explanations for why different ethnic groups
average different intelligence scores.
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Section Assessment
Research on stereotype threat indicates
that students might not do as well as
they can on a test if:
A. they are informed that people of their ethnicity, age,
or gender usually do not perform well on the test
B. the group taking the test is not ethnically diverse
C. they are forced to take a test that is know to have low
test-retest reliability
D. other students perceive them to be of a minority
ethnic group
E. the test does not have standardized administration of
scoring procedures
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111. Learning Goal:
10: How and why do gender and racial groups differ in mental ability scores?
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Notes de l'éditeur
1. T (p. 527)2. T (p. 528)3. T (pp. 529–530)
4. T (p. 530)5. F (p. 532)
6. T (p. 537)
7. T (p. 542)
8. T (p. 545)
9. F (p. 547)
10. F (p. 554)
1, moderate
2, weak
3 strong
As a socially constructed concept, intelligence varies from culture to culture. Thus, most psychol- ogists now define intelligence as the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. To reify something is to view an abstract, immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing. Thus, to reify IQ is to treat the intelligence quotient as if it were a fixed and objectively real trait, such as height, rather than as a score received on an intelligence test.
In research studies, intelligence is whatever the intelligence test measures. This tends to be “school smarts.”
Psychologists agree that people have specific abilities, such as verbal and mathematical aptitudes. However, they debate whether a general intelligence (g) factor runs through them all, as proposed by Charles Spearman. Factor analysis has identified several clusters of mental abilities, including verbal intelligence, spatial ability, and reasoning ability. Still, there seems to be a tendency for those who excel in one of the clusters to score well on others, as suggested by the results of
L. L. Thurstone’s ranking of people’s primary mental abilities. Some psychologists today agree with Spearman’s notion that we have a common level of intelligence that can predict our abilities in all other academic areas.
Spearman’s Theory
g factor – the ability to reason and solve problems, or general intelligence.
s factor – the ability to excel in certain areas, or specific intelligence.
Gardner’s Theory
Multiple intelligences - ranging from verbal, linguistic, and mathematical to interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.
Evidence that brain damage may diminish one ability but not others, as well as studies of savant syndrome, led Howard Gardner to propose his theory of multiple intelligences. These include lin- guistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and naturalist.
OBJECTIVE 3| Compare Gardner’s and Sternberg's theories of intelligence.
OBJECTIVE 3| Compare Gardner’s and Sternberg's theories of intelligence.
Robert Sternberg also proposes a triarchic theory of multiple intelligences in which he distinguishes among analytical (academic problem solving), practical, and creative intelligences.
Distinct from academic
intelligence is social intelligence, an aspect of which is emotional intelligence. The four components of emotional intelligence are (1) the ability to perceive emotions (to recognize them in faces, music, and stories), (2) to understand emotions (to predict them and how they change and blend), (3) to manage emotions (to know how to express them in varied situations), and (4) to use emotions to enable adaptive or creative thinking. Those who are emotionally smart often succeed in careers, marriages, and parenting where other academically smarter (but emotionally less intelligent) people fail. Critics of the idea of emotional intelligence argue that we stretch the idea of intelligence too far when we apply it to emotion.
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Several studies report a positive correlation (+.33) between brain size (adjusted for body size) and intelligence score. Moreover, as adults age, brain size and nonverbal intelligence test scores fall in concert. Some studies suggest that highly educated people die with more synapses. The direction of the relationship between brain size and intelligence remains unclear. Larger brain size may enable greater intelligence, but it is also possible that greater intelligence leads to experiences that exercise the brain and build more connections, thus increase its size. Or, some third factor may be at work. Some evidence suggests that highly intelligent people differ in their neural plasticity.
People who score high on intelligence tests tend to retrieve information from memory more quick- ly. Research also suggests that the correlation between intelligence score and the speed of taking in perceptual information tends to be about +.3 to +.5. Those who perceive quickly are especially likely to score higher on tests based on perceptual rather than verbal problem solving. The brain waves of highly intelligent people register a simple stimulus, such as a flash of light, more quickly and with greater complexity. The evoked brain response also tends to be slightly faster when peo- ple with high intelligence rather than low intelligence scores perform a simple task, such as push- ing a button when an X appears on the screen. As yet, psychologists have no firm idea of why fast reactions on simple tasks should predict intelligence test performance.
People who score high on intelligence tests tend to retrieve information from memory more quick- ly. Research also suggests that the correlation between intelligence score and the speed of taking in perceptual information tends to be about +.3 to +.5. Those who perceive quickly are especially likely to score higher on tests based on perceptual rather than verbal problem solving. The brain waves of highly intelligent people register a simple stimulus, such as a flash of light, more quickly and with greater complexity. The evoked brain response also tends to be slightly faster when peo- ple with high intelligence rather than low intelligence scores perform a simple task, such as push- ing a button when an X appears on the screen. As yet, psychologists have no firm idea of why fast reactions on simple tasks should predict intelligence test performance.
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The modern intelligence-testing movement started at the turn of the twentieth century when French psychologist Alfred Binet began assessing intellectual abilities. Together with Théodore Simon, Binet developed an intelligence test containing questions that assessed mental age and helped predict children’s future progress in the Paris school system. The test sought to identify French schoolchildren needing special attention. Binet and Simon made no assumption about the origin of intelligence.
Lewis Terman believed that intelligence was inherited. Like Binet, he believed that his test, the Stanford-Binet, could help guide people toward appropriate opportunities. William Stern derived the intelligence quotient, or IQ, for Terman’s test. The IQ was simply a person’s mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100. During the early part of the twentieth century, intelligence tests were sometimes used in ways that, in hindsight, even their designers regretted— “documenting” a presumed innate inferiority of ethnic and immigrant groups not sharing an Anglo-Saxon heritage.
Lewis Terman believed that intelligence was inherited. Like Binet, he believed that his test, the Stanford-Binet, could help guide people toward appropriate opportunities. William Stern derived the intelligence quotient, or IQ, for Terman’s test. The IQ was simply a person’s mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100. During the early part of the twentieth century, intelligence tests were sometimes used in ways that, in hindsight, even their designers regretted— “documenting” a presumed innate inferiority of ethnic and immigrant groups not sharing an Anglo-Saxon heritage.
Aptitude refers to the capacity to learn, and thus aptitude tests are those designed to predict a per- son’s future performance. Achievement tests are designed to assess what a person has learned.
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The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is the most widely used intelligence test. David Wechsler developed a version for school-age children (the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children [WISC]), and another for preschool children.
The WISC consists of 11 subtests and yields not only
an overall intelligence score but also separate verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed scores. Striking differences between these scores can pro- vide clues to cognitive strengths that a teacher or therapist might build on. Other comparisons can help clinicians identify a possible reading or language disability.
Answers: 1) 4 miles; 2) 6 mules; 3) B; 4) B; 5) False (A sick man is always happy); 6) True (It does not snow every day); 7) 9, 10; 8) 15, 11; 9) Head; 10) Room; 11) Tree; 12) Fabric
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Because scores become meaningful only when they can be compared with others’ performance, they must be defined relative to a pretested group, a process called standardization. Obviously, the group on which a test is standardized must be representative of those who will be taking the test in the future. Standardized test results typically form a normal distribution, a bell-shaped pattern of scores that forms the normal curve. Most scores cluster around the average, and increasingly fewer are distributed at the extremes. Intelligence test scores form such a curve, but in the past several decades the average score has risen, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. The cause of this increase remains a mystery.
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The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day. When intelligence quotient (IQ) tests are initially standardized using a sample of test-takers, by convention the average of the test results is set to 100 and their standard deviation is set to 15 or 16 IQ points. When IQ tests are revised, they are again standardized using a new sample of test-takers, usually born more recently than the first. Again, the average result is set to 100. However, when the new test subjects take the older tests, in almost every case their average scores are significantly above 100.
Reliability refers to the extent to which a test yields consistent scores. Consistency may be assessed by comparing scores on two halves of the test (split-half), on alternative forms, or on test- retest. A test can be reliable but not valid.
Validity refers to the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. Content validity is determined by assessing whether the test taps the pertinent behavior, or criterion. For example, road tests for a driver’s license should measure driving ability. Predictive validity is determined by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior. Aptitude tests have predictive validity if they can predict future achievement. The predictive power of apti- tude scores diminishes as students move up the educational ladder.
Predictive validity is determined by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior. Aptitude tests have predictive validity if they can predict future achievement. The predictive power of apti- tude scores diminishes as students move up the educational ladder.
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At one extreme of the normal distribution are people whose intelligence scores fall below 70. To be labeled as having an intellectual disability (formerly referred to as mental retardation), a child must have both a low test score and difficulty adapting to the normal demands of living independ- ently. Intellectual disability sometimes results from known physical causes, such as Down syn- drome, a disorder of varying severity that is attributed to an extra chromosome in the person’s genetic makeup. Most mentally challenged adults can, with support, live in mainstream society.
In this test of one type of verbal intelligence (inductive reasoning), the cross-sectional method produced declining scores with age. The longitudinal method (in which the same people were retested over a period of years) produced a slight rise in scores well into adulthood. (Adapted from Schaie, 1994.)
Research reveals that word power grows with age, while fluid intelligence dimensions decline (Salthouse, 2010b).
When Ian Deary and his colleagues (2004) retested 80-year-old Scots, using an intelligence test they had taken as 11-year-olds, their scores across seven decades correlated +.66. (When 207 survivors were again retested at age 87, the correlation with their age 11 scores was +.51 [Gow et al., 2011].)
Women scoring in the highest 25 percent on the Scottish national intelligence test at age 11 tended to live longer than those who scored in the lowest 25 percent. (From Whalley & Deary, 2001.)
At one extreme of the normal distribution are people whose intelligence scores fall below 70. To be labeled as having an intellectual disability (formerly referred to as mental retardation), a child must have both a low test score and difficulty adapting to the normal demands of living independ- ently. Intellectual disability sometimes results from known physical causes, such as Down syndrome, a disorder of varying severity that is attributed to an extra chromosome in the person’s genetic makeup. Most mentally challenged adults can, with support, live in mainstream society.
At one extreme of the normal distribution are people whose intelligence scores fall below 70. To be labeled as having an intellectual disability (formerly referred to as mental retardation), a child must have both a low test score and difficulty adapting to the normal demands of living independ- ently. Intellectual disability sometimes results from known physical causes, such as Down syndrome, a disorder of varying severity that is attributed to an extra chromosome in the person’s genetic makeup. Most mentally challenged adults can, with support, live in mainstream society.
At the other extreme are the “gifted.” Contrary to the popular myth that they are frequently malad- justed, research suggests that high-scoring children are healthy, well adjusted, and academically successful. Controversy surrounds “gifted child” programs in which the “gifted” are segregated and given academic enrichment not available to the masses. Critics note that tracking by aptitude sometimes creates a self-fulfilling prophecy: Those implicitly labeled “ungifted” can be influenced to become so. Denying lower-ability students opportunities for enriched education can widen the achievement gap between ability groups and increase their social isolation from one another.
At the other extreme are the “gifted.” Contrary to the popular myth that they are frequently malad- justed, research suggests that high-scoring children are healthy, well adjusted, and academically successful. Controversy surrounds “gifted child” programs in which the “gifted” are segregated and given academic enrichment not available to the masses. Critics note that tracking by aptitude sometimes creates a self-fulfilling prophecy: Those implicitly labeled “ungifted” can be influenced to become so. Denying lower-ability students opportunities for enriched education can widen the achievement gap between ability groups and increase their social isolation from one another.
At the other extreme are the “gifted.” Contrary to the popular myth that they are frequently malad- justed, research suggests that high-scoring children are healthy, well adjusted, and academically successful. Controversy surrounds “gifted child” programs in which the “gifted” are segregated and given academic enrichment not available to the masses. Critics note that tracking by aptitude sometimes creates a self-fulfilling prophecy: Those implicitly labeled “ungifted” can be influenced to become so. Denying lower-ability students opportunities for enriched education can widen the achievement gap between ability groups and increase their social isolation from one another.
heritability refers to the extent to which differences among people are attrib- utable to genes. To say that the heritability of intelligence is 50 percent does not mean that half of an individual’s intelligence is inherited. Rather, it means that we can attribute to heredity 50 per- cent of the variation of intelligence among those studied.
Studies of twins, family members, and adopted children together point to a significant genetic contribution to intelligence scores. For example, the test scores of identical twins reared separately are similar enough to lead one researcher to estimate that “about 70 percent” of intelligence score variation “can be attributed to genetic variation.” Furthermore, the most genetically similar people have the most similar scores ranging from +.85 for identical twins raised together, to about +.33 for unrelated individuals raised together.
Studies of twins, family members, and adopted children together point to a significant genetic contribution to intelligence scores. For example, the test scores of identical twins reared separately are similar enough to lead one researcher to estimate that “about 70 percent” of intelligence score variation “can be attributed to genetic variation.” Furthermore, the most genetically similar people have the most similar scores ranging from +.85 for identical twins raised together, to about +.33 for unrelated individuals raised together.
Studies of twins, family members, and adopted children together point to a significant genetic contribution to intelligence scores. For example, the test scores of identical twins reared separately are similar enough to lead one researcher to estimate that “about 70 percent” of intelligence score variation “can be attributed to genetic variation.” Furthermore, the most genetically similar people have the most similar scores ranging from +.85 for identical twins raised together, to about +.33 for unrelated individuals raised together.
Studies of twins, family members, and adopted children together point to a significant genetic contribution to intelligence scores. For example, the test scores of identical twins reared separately are similar enough to lead one researcher to estimate that “about 70 percent” of intelligence score variation “can be attributed to genetic variation.” Furthermore, the most genetically similar people have the most similar scores ranging from +.85 for identical twins raised together, to about +.33 for unrelated individuals raised together.
Studies of twins, family members, and adopted children together point to a significant genetic contribution to intelligence scores. For example, the test scores of identical twins reared separately are similar enough to lead one researcher to estimate that “about 70 percent” of intelligence score variation “can be attributed to genetic variation.” Furthermore, the most genetically similar people have the most similar scores ranging from +.85 for identical twins raised together, to about +.33 for unrelated individuals raised together.
Studies of twins, family members, and adopted children together point to a significant genetic contribution to intelligence scores. For example, the test scores of identical twins reared separately are similar enough to lead one researcher to estimate that “about 70 percent” of intelligence score variation “can be attributed to genetic variation.” Furthermore, the most genetically similar people have the most similar scores ranging from +.85 for identical twins raised together, to about +.33 for unrelated individuals raised together.
Studies of twins, family members, and adopted children together point to a significant genetic contribution to intelligence scores. For example, the test scores of identical twins reared separately are similar enough to lead one researcher to estimate that “about 70 percent” of intelligence score variation “can be attributed to genetic variation.” Furthermore, the most genetically similar people have the most similar scores ranging from +.85 for identical twins raised together, to about +.33 for unrelated individuals raised together.
Studies of twins, family members, and adopted children also provide evidence for environmental influences on intelligence. The intelligence test scores of fraternal twins raised together are more similar than those of other siblings, and the scores of identical twins raised apart are less similar than the scores of identical twins raised together. Studies of children reared in extremely neglectful or enriched environments also indicate that life experiences significantly influence intelligence test scores. For example, research indicates that schooling and intelligence contribute to each other (and that both enhance later income). Programs such as Head Start increase school readiness and provide at least a small boost to emotional intelligence.
Although gender similarities far outnumber gender differences, we find the differences in abilities more interesting. Research indicates that, compared with males, females are better spellers; are more verbally fluent; are better at remembering and locating objects; are more sensitive to touch, taste, and color; and are better emotion detectors. Males’ mental ability scores vary more than females’, and thus boys outnumber girls at both the low extreme and the high extreme. Boys out- perform girls in spatial ability tests and at math problem solving, but they underperform them in math computation. According to different perspectives, these differences may be explained as evolutionarily adaptive for each gender or as the result of social expectations and divergent opportunities.
OBJECTIVE 17| Describe ethnic similarities and differences in intelligence test scores, and discuss some genetic and environmental factors that might explain them.
American Blacks average about 10 points lower than White Americans on intelligence tests. European New Zealanders outscore native Maori New Zealanders, Israeli Jews outscore Israeli Arabs, and most Japanese outscore the stigmatized Japanese minority. Research suggests that envi- ronmental differences are largely responsible for these group differences.
(1) genetics research indicates that the races are remarkably alike under the skin;
(1) genetics research indicates that the races are remarkably alike under the skin;
Stereotype threat is a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. The phenomenon sometimes appears in intelligence testing among African-Americans and among women of all colors.