9.1 perspectives on intelligence Flashcards

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psychologist were improperly marketing intelligence tests as capable of determining ____

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a persons innate intellectual ability, encouraging gov leaders across north america to use scores on intelligence tests to make decisions about citizens and sometimes to forces citizens to undergo irreversible surgical procedures

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the aim of sterilization programs

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to prevent individuals who are identified as having low intelligence from producing children, these were eugenics programs meant to engineer genetically superior population

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sir francis galton

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  • responsible for the earliest attempts to measure intelligence
  • had idea that high intelligence emerged from possessing unusually keen sensory abilities
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anthropometrics

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procedures for measuring variations in human physical and mental abilities

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james mckeen cattell

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further explored the link between sensory abilities and achievement

  • he had to reject galtons idea that intelligence is a consequence of keen sensory abilities
  • there really isn’t much correlation bw the diff sensory abilities of individuals
  • ex. having great visual abilities doesn’t mean that a person will also have great hearing abilities
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alfred binet and theodore simon

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figured intelligence was not really a matter of sensory ability, instead they proposed that an intelligence should be thought of as reflecting differences of more complex mental ability, such as memory, attention and language comprehension

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intelligence

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an ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome obstacles

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binet-simon developed a test of intelligence

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  • 30 tasks that cover a range of difficulty

- gave test to each age to determine each average test score

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9
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mental age

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if a child’s chronological age is 10, but their score most closely matches the average score of 8 year olds, their mental age would be 8

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lewis terman

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modified the binet-simon test and called it the stanford-binet test

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terman created the standford-binet intelligence test

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providing a measure of children’s innate and stable level of intelligence
-provides permanent intellectual ability

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12
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intelligence quotient (IQ)

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mental age/chronological age*100=

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Deviation IQ

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relating the score a person receives on an intelligence test to the average score obtained from a very large group of ppl that are the same age

  • used for adults
  • the area under the normal curve represents the % of individuals that fall in that range of scores
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14
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Terman succeeded in selling his intelligence tests ..

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to the US military during world war I and afterwards to the US public school system

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Social darwinism

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the idea that naturally superior social groups emerge as dominant in competition for wealth and power and therefore have earned the right to rule over members of other groups, who have less wealth and less power
-involves racist concepts like “the white man’s burden”and the notion of a hierarchy of race- which ordered races according to their presumed genetic relationship to apes

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eugenics

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aimed at improving the genetic quality of the ppl that formed a nation

17
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Galton’s tree of scientifically talented/ brilliant relatives

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lots of ppl in his family are very intelligent

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terman stanford-binet intelligence test

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-high grade or border line deficiency is very very common among Spanish-indian and Mexican families of the southwest and also among negroes
-their dullness seems to be racial, or at least inherent in the family stocks from which they come
children of this group should be segregated into separate classes
from a eugenic point of view they constitute a grave problem bc of their unusually prolific breeding
they cannot master the abstractions, but they can often be made into efficient workers

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sterilization relies heavily on

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intelligence tests scores

most of the sterilized were new immigrants, poor ppl, aboriginal and black ppl

20
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intelligence tests and cultural bias

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the task here is to fill in whatever is missing i each image

  • tests in english
  • relied heavily on concepts that are common from middle to upper class white ppl
21
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john raven’s progressive matrices

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intelligence tests that are free from cultural bias

  • based on pictures rather than words
  • patterns, shapes or colours
  • still showed cultural bias, asians tended to score better
22
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Meritocracy

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the idea that wealth, power, and status should depend solely on hard work and natural ability
-this idea ignores the reality that not everyone starts the competition for wealth, power and status at the same level

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the testing situation is inherently culturally biased

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members of different ethnic groups vary in how comfortable they are in formal testing situations, with test administrators, and in their motivation to perform well

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stereotype threat

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discriminatory views about the intelligence level of members or an ethnic group can actually lead members of those groups to perform worse on standardized tests

25
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IQ scores are…

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  • not direct measures of innate intellectual ability

- also measures of racial discrimination and unequal civil rights

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incremental theory

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the belief that a person’s intelligence can be improved with experience and effort

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Entity theory

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the belief that intelligence is a stable trait that is nearly impossible to improve
-contrary to entity theory, a person’s IQ score is not written in stone

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Weschler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)

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full scale IQ

-provides a measure for a persons overall level of intelligence

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full scale IQ consists of a combo of :

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  1. the general ability index (GAI)

2. the cognitive proficiency index (CPI)

30
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the general ability index (GAI)

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a measure of performance on verbal comprehension and perceptual reasoning tasks

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the cognitive proficiency index (CPI)

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a measure of working memory capacity and processing speed

32
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psychology has a history of

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unethical and human rights violations