Individual Differences Exam Review Implicit Intelligence
Contents Implicit Intelligence Eugenics Psychometric Intelligence Testing Psychodynamic Cognitive Approaches: Growth, wellbeing: Life Story approaches Relational Traits and Five Factor Model
Individual Differences Exam Review Implicit Intelligence
Implicit Intelligence: Lay person’s everyday ideas and beliefs of intelligence o Sternberg is a key figure. He has shown that the lay person’s view of intelligence covers three aspects Practical problem solving; logical reasoning, connection between ideas, seeing all aspects of the problem Verbal Ability; speaking clearly and fluently Social Competence; accepting others, admitting mistakes, displaying interest in the world o Motivational effects on IQ Fixed or Performance Orientation; look to validate their intelligence with their performance on tests. Malleable or Learning Orientation; See tests as opportunity to learn new skills, extend themselves Binet took a very different approach o Created a test to Identify children at risk to therefore provide them with support. o The Binet-Simon Scale o Created the first intelligence test, to provide a profile for diagnosis and support, rather than categorise. o He believed it’s about seeing your strengths and weaknesses, o Identified at risk students in the classroom, tested the mental levels of the children, o developed tests Memory Imagination Attention Comprehension suggestibility. o Feared misuse of the scale and labelling of children Terman o who popularised the intelligence test o adapting Binet’s test with Sterns IQ to create the Stanford-Binet Scale o Still around today SB5 o Used the test as a tool to understand what a child’s intelligence is Yerkes o the need for rapid classification in the US army The Alpha Test – o general routine testing, The Beta Test – o Non language test used for illiterates and foreign born recruits who didn’t speak English
Individual Differences Exam Review Implicit Intelligence
Implicit Intelligence: Lay person’s everyday ideas and beliefs of intelligence o Sternberg is a key figure. He has shown that the lay person’s view of intelligence covers three aspects Practical problem solving; logical reasoning, connection between ideas, seeing all aspects of the problem Verbal Ability; speaking clearly and fluently Social Competence; accepting others, admitting mistakes, displaying interest in the world o Motivational effects on IQ Fixed or Performance Orientation; look to validate their intelligence with their performance on tests. Malleable or Learning Orientation; See tests as opportunity to learn new skills, extend themselves Binet took a very different approach o Created a test to Identify children at risk to therefore provide them with support. o The Binet-Simon Scale o Created the first intelligence test, to provide a profile for diagnosis and support, rather than categorise. o He believed it’s about seeing your strengths and weaknesses, o Identified at risk students in the classroom, tested the mental levels of the children, o developed tests Memory Imagination Attention Comprehension suggestibility. o Feared misuse of the scale and labelling of children Terman o who popularised the intelligence test o adapting Binet’s test with Sterns IQ to create the Stanford-Binet Scale o Still around today SB5 o Used the test as a tool to understand what a child’s intelligence is Yerkes o the need for rapid classification in the US army The Alpha Test – o general routine testing, The Beta Test – o Non language test used for illiterates and foreign born recruits who didn’t speak English
