Flashcards
Psychology Terms
Cards in this deck (19)
- 1Triarch thoery of intelligenceSternberg's theory that inteligence involves mental skills, insight and creative adaptability, and envirnmental responsiveness.
- 2Componential IntelligenceAccording to Sternberg, The ability to aquire new knowledge and solve problems efficiently.
- 3Experiential IntelligenceSternberg's term for the ability to adapt creatively in new situations, to use insight.
- 4Cotextual InteligenceAccording to Sternberg, the abiity to select contexts in which you can excell, to shape the environment to fit your strengths.
- 5Theory of multiple intelligencesHoward Gardner's theory that there is not one intelligence, but rather many intelligences, each of which is relitively independant of the others.
- 6Binet-Simon ScaleThe first test of intelligence, developed for testing children.
- 7Standford-Binet Intelligence ScaleTherman's adaptaion of the Binet-Simon Scale.
- 8Intelligence Quotient(IQ)A numerical value given to intelligence that is determined from the scores on an intelligence test; the average IQ arbitarily set at 100.
- 9Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- Third Eition (WAIS-III)An individual inteligence tes deeloped especialy for adults; it yields verbal, performance, and full scale IQ scores
- 10Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Third Edition(WISC-III)An intelligence test developed especially for school-aged children; it yields verbal, performance, and full scale IQ scores.
- 11Group TestsIntelligece tests administered by one examier to many people at one time.
- 12Performance testsInteligence tests that minimise the use of laguage
- 13Culture-fair testsIntelligence tests designed to reduce cultural bias by minimise skills and values that vary from one culture to another
- 14ReliabilityAbilty of a test to produce consistant and stable scores
- 15Split-half reliabilitya method of determining test relibility by divding the test into two parts and
checking the agreement of scores in both parts - 16Correlation CoefficientsStatitical measures of the degree of association between two variables
- 17ValidityAbility of a test to measure
what it has been designed to measure - 18Content vaidityRefers to a test's having an adequate sample of questions measuring
the skills or knowledge its supossed to measure - 19Criterion-related valitityvalitity of a test as measured by a comparison of the test score and
independent measures of what the test is designed to measure