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WEEK 9 - Intelligence 3&4 Flashcards

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How many forms of Wechsler IQ scales are there according to age?

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3.

  • WPPSI (young children: 2yrs 6 months, 7yrs 3 months): WPPSI-IV
  • WISC: Children/young: 6-16yrs: WISC-V
  • WAIS: Adults, 16-89 yers: WAIS-IV
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What 4 scales are covered in WAIS IV?

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  • Verbal comprehension index scale (VCI)
  • Perceptual reasoning index scale (PRI)
  • Working memory index scale (WMI)
  • Processing Speed index scale (PSI)
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What is involved in verbal comprehension subtests?

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  1. Similarities
  2. Vocabulary
  3. Information
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What is involved in perceptual reasoning subtests?

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  1. Block design
  2. Matrix reasoning
  3. Visual puzzles
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What is involved with working memory subtests?

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  1. Digit span
    - Forward, backward, sequencing
  2. Arithmetic
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What is involved in processing speed subtests?

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  1. Symbol search

2. Coding

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How are scores interpreted in the WAIS?

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  • WAIS Standardisation group

Mean
SD
Standardisation
Norms

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How are scores calculated in the WAIS?

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  • Raw scores from each test are converted to scaled scores by using the norms obtained from the standardisation group
  • To obtain VCI, WMI, PRI and PSI IQ scores, the scaled scores of the subtests are summed and compared to the standardisation sample.

FULL SCALE IQ: obtained by adding all index scores together

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What defines an intellectual disability as define in DSM-V?

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Range of cognitive abilities

1) Significant deficits in intellectual functioning (IQ - 70)
2) Concurrent deficits or impairments in adaptive functioning
3) Onset in the developmental period

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What may be the cause of intellectual disabilities?

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  • Genetic
  • Biological
  • Environmental
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How is severity of intellectual disability determined?

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  • On the basis of adaptive functioning and not IQ
  • Adaptive functioning determines levels of support necessary
  • Also IQ scores are less valid at the low end
  • Mild
  • Moderate
  • Severe
  • Profound
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What are some examples of conceptual skills in adaptive skills?

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  • Communication
  • Functional Academics
  • Self direction
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What is social in relation to adaptive skills?

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Leisure

Social interaction

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What is practical in relation to adaptive skills?

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  • Community use
  • Home living
  • Health and safety
  • Self-care
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What does it mean for someone to be ‘gifted’?

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  • Can reflect academic, musical, social, or athletic ability
  • Associated with IQs over 130
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What are the associated stereotypes of gifted people?

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  • Physically weak
  • Mentally unstable
  • Reclusive/eccentric
  • Compensation - talent in one area is accompanied by a deficit in another
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What are characteristics of gifted people?

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Terman, 1921
- Above average height, strength, emotional maturity and other variables as children

Gross (1999)
- IQ 160+ found it could lead to social isolation in school and reiterated the need for gifted school programs

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What are Renzulli’s 3 intersection components of true giftedness?

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  • Exceptional intelligence in specific domain
  • exceptional motivation
  • Exceptional creativity
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What is creativity?

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The ability to produce valued outcomes in a vowel way

- May be linked to divergent thinking (the ability to genera in given situation

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Sternberg includes ________ in his triarchic model. Although is it generally considered to be ______ to intelligence

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Creativity

Separate

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What is psychometrics in relation to IQ?

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  • Starts with a theory
  • Design test
  • Measure constructs
  • Statistics check
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Measures of _______ were developed first. They evolved to fit measures of ______.

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intelligence

Science

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Name the criticisms of an IQ test.

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  • Lack of theoretical bases (no underlying construct was used to devise tests
  • Cultural bias
  • Ecological validity - what skills are IQ tests measuring?
  • What will predict performance? Aptitude vs IQ interviews
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Do IQ scores predict real-world outcomes?

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  • Popular tools for job selection
    Weiten (2004):
    ‘People who score high on IQ tests are more likely than those who score low to end up in high status jobs’
  • Good predictors of future school performance
  • School performance = certain jobs.
  • g and job performance correlations are weak
  • More practical forms of intelligence may be more appropriate
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How have intelligence tests been abused?
- Eugenics movements - Goddard translated the Simon-Binet scale in 1910 by researching 'feeble minded' children - Diagnostic tool - Thought children who were feeble should be isolated so they did not contaminate
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How was Binet's work surrounding intelligence testing corrupted?
- Goddard to assess immigrants - Convinced that feeble mindedness was common in immigrants - Initially he interpreted the results with caution - Then claimed that minimal research would be needed to confirm findings - Suggested immigrants were of moron grade - Environmental deprivation - Advocated deportation - Claimed they could be labourers
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How would intelligence tests be developed to improve culture discrimination?
- Include items that measure common skills and knowledge from across cultures - Limited success - Need to be considered within a culture
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What did Cattell's culture-fair test comprise of?
Series Classification Matrices
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Does brain size matter in intelligence?
- Slight correlation | - This is due to more activity, better nutrition etc
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How does memory impact intelligence?
- Relationship between memory and intelligence (WMI) | - Working memory is different to LTM so you can have poor memory and above average intelligence
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Is intelligence influenced by abilities like reaction time?
- Galton could not establish a link between speed of processing sensory information and intelligence, more recent and sophisticated studies suggest a modest relationship - Faster nerve responses to visual stimuli correlates with non-verbal IQ (Ravens progressive matrices test)
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________ concerning biological factors of intelligence are generally modest.
Correlations
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We choose mates with similar culture and ____.
IQ
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What are some caveats with calculating heritability?
Twin studies have almost all used literate, middle class samples - Heritability estimates would drop with more varied examples - Genetic influences seem to be smaller in determining IQ of children in less educated environments
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What are the best positive predictors of children performance on IQ and language tests?
- Enriched home environment - Encouraging interest and exploration - Mother's knowledge on child rearing
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What are risk factors for lower IQ?
- Poor maternal education - Maternal mental illness - Minority status (and its correlates) - Larger family size - Poverty - Poor nutrition
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What are some environmental factors surrounding intelligence?
- Higher education = higher brain connectivity
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How does sociocultural disadvantage relate to intelligence?
Lower SES upbringing factors: children fail to reach intellectual potential - IQ difference between highest and lowest social class = 20-30pnts - Stereotype threat: belief about group = greater anxiety = self-fulfilling prophecy - Access to education - Healthcare and nutrition
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Describe the Flynn effect
James Flynn - IQ points increase 3 points per decade - Strong argument for environmental effects - Some countries appear to be going backward
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What percentage of heritability did Arthur Jensen suggest contributed to IQ differences?
80%
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What is within group heritability and between group heritability?
Within group: The extent to which a trait varies within a specific group, due to genetic influences Between: The extent to which differences in a trait between groups is genetically influenced
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What are some controversies for group differences n intelligence?
- Racial difference in IQ test scores are due to deprived environment - Ethnic minorities: History of discrimination - Plus, consider the overlap between distributions
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