INTELLIGENCE

INTELLIGENCE

1. PSYCHOLOGY TESTS

   • TEST NORMS
   • STANDARDIZATION
   • MENTAL ABILITY TESTS
   • PERCENTILE SCORE

2. HEREDITY & ENVIRONMENT

   • ADOPTION STUDIES
     • Adopted children show some similarity to their foster parents
       • Environmental Influences
   • CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN IQ SCORES
     • Heritability
     • Socioenconomic Disadvantage
     • Stereotype Threat
   • HEREDITY
   • ENVIRONMENT

3. CONCEPT OF INTELLIGENCE

   • Naturalist
   • Bodily KInesthetic
   • Existential
   • Verbal Linguistic
   • Visual Spatial
   • Mathematical Logical
   • Musical
   • Interpersonal

4. New Directions

   • COGNITIVE PROCESSES
     • Focus on how intelligence is used
     • Traditional IQ tests more reflective of analytical intelligence
   • BIOLOGICAL CORRELATES