Who are the people that are usually interested in intelligence testing?
Employers, schools, clinical psychologists, and clinicians; forensic, neuro psy, and health psy
Is intelligence genetic?
Can’t agree on it, no evidence
What are the 3 different classes of conceptualization?
Adapting, ability to learn, and abstract thinking
What is spearman’s theory of intelligence?
G (general intelligence) and S (specific intelligence)
What is cattels theory of intelligence?
Adds to spearman’s g and breaks it up; fluid ability: genetically based intellectual capacity and crystallized ability: attributed to culture-based learning
How do we determine which theory of intelligence is the “best?”
Emphasizes planning and monitoring, depends on who you ask, and what you’re using it for
How is intelligence quotient calculated?
(Mental age/chronological age)x100
What is mental age?
Avg score for sample at each age
What is deviation IQ?
Compared IQ to the avg scores of people the same age
What are 3 areas that IQ relates to or predicts to some degree?
School success, occupational status, and job performance
How well/poorly does IQ predict academic performance?
Checks to see if a child has a learning disability
Objective testing
Assessments with fixed, predetermined questions and scoring, like true/false or multiple choice, where responses are evaluated against a universal standard.
Projective testing
Uses ambiguous stimuli to reveal a persons unconscious thoughts, feeling, and personality traits.
What are the 5 personality characteristics measured by the big 5 inventory?
Extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience
What is the MMPI-2 and what strength is?
True false test for mental illnesses, 600 questions. 12 subscales. Hard to fake.
Thematic apperception test
Asked to tell a dramatic story with a picture that is presented
Rorschach test
Tests spontaneous or unrehearsed responses using ink blots
What is the enter scoring system and its problems
Strengths: assessing and aiding in forming diagnostic understanding
Weaknesses: limited description of capabilities and interpersonal qualities of a person
Main typical features of behavioral group therapy?
5-10 patients, weekly sessions, has a therapist involved most sessions, 90 min sessions 3x a week
Yaloms curative factors
Imparting information with each other, universality altruistic, imitating and modeling good behaviors
Evidence supporti mg group therapy
Better than nothing
Evidence supporting family therapy
Meta-analysis shows modest affects across different types of family therapy
Evidence supporting couples therapy
Emotionally focused couples therapy focuses on their problematic emotions and intersectional styles.
