Chapter 11 study qs
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The document contains 19 questions about defining and measuring intelligence including: discussing theories of multiple intelligences; the components of emotional intelligence and its criticisms; the relationship between intelligence, brain anatomy, and processing speed; defining intelligence tests and their history; distinguishing between aptitude and achievement tests; the importance of standardizing tests and the normal distribution of scores; test reliability and validity; stability of intelligence over the lifespan; the extremes of the distribution; genetic and environmental influences on intelligence; ethnic and gender differences in test scores; and potential biases of intelligence tests and stereotype threat.
Chapter 11 study qs
- 1. Please answer the following on a separate sheet of paper:<br />1. Discuss the difficulty of defining intelligence, and explain what it means to reify intelligence.<br />2. Present arguments for and against considering intelligence as one general mental ability.<br />3. Compare Gardners and Sternbergs theories of intelligences.<br />4. Describe the four aspects of emotional intelligence, and discuss criticisms of this concept.<br />5. Identify the factors associated with creativity, and describe the relationship between creativity and intelligence.<br />6. Describe the relationship between intelligence and brain anatomy.<br />7. Discuss findings on the correlations between perceptual speed, neural processing <br />speed, and intelligence.<br />8. Define intelligence test, and discuss the history of intelligence testing.<br />9. Distinguish between aptitude and achievement tests, and describe modern tests of mental abilities such as the WAIS.<br />10. Discuss the importance of standardizing psychological tests, and describe the distribution of scores in a normal curve.<br />11. Explain what it means to say that a test is reliable.<br />12. Explain what it means to say a test is valid, and describe two types of validity.<br />13. Describe the stability of intelligence scores over the life span.<br />14. Discuss the two extremes of the normal distribution of intelligence.<br />15. Discuss the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual intelligence, and explain what psychologists mean by the heritability of intelligence.<br />16. Discuss the evidence for environmental influences on individual intelligence.<br />17. Describe ethnic similarities and differences in intelligence test scores, and discuss some genetic and environ- mental factors that might explain them.<br />18. Describe gender differences in abilities.<br />19. Discuss whether intelligence tests are biased, and describe the stereotype threat phenomenon.<br />