DIRECTIONS: Using your text (pg. 405-439), please complete the following outline. Specific directions are in brackets. This packet will be due on the day of our next multiple choice quizzam, and questions regarding the information in it will also appear on the quizzam.

  1. What is Intelligence?
  2. Is Intelligence One General Ability or Several Specific Abilities?
  3. [DEFINE] General intelligence:
  4. [DEFINE] Intelligence test:
  5. Theories of Multiple Intelligences
  6. [DEFINE] Savant syndrome:
  7. [IDENTIFY & DESCRIBE] Gardner’s 8 Intelligences
  8. [IDENTIFY & DESCRIBE] Sternberg’s 3 Intelligences
  1. [DESCRIBE] Spearman’s General Intelligence:
  1. [DESCRIBE] Thurstone’s Primary Mental Abilities:
  1. Intelligence & Creativity?
  2. [DEFINE] Creativity:
  3. [IDENTIFY & DESCRIBE] Five Components of Creativity
  4. [DEFINE]Emotional Intelligence:
  5. [IDENTIFY & DESCRIBE] Four Components of Emotional Intelligence
  6. Is Intelligence Neurologically Measureable?
  7. [SUMMARIZE] Brain Size and Complexity:
  1. [SUMMARIZE] Brain Function:
  1. [DEFINE & DESCRIBE IMPLICATIONS OF] Perceptual Speed
  1. [DEFINE & DESCRIBE IMPLICATIONS OF] Neurological Speed
  1. Assessing Intelligence
  2. The Origins of Intelligence Testing
  3. Alfred Binet: Predicting School Achievement
  4. [DEFINE] Mental age:
  5. [SUMMARIZE] Binet & Simon’s ideas:
  1. Lewis Terman: The Innate IQ
  2. [DEFINE & DESCRIBE] Stanford-Binet:
  1. [DEFINE & APPLY] Intelligence quotient:
  1. Modern Tests of Mental Abilities
  2. [DEFINE] Achievement Tests:
  3. [DEFINE] Aptitude Tests:
  1. [DEFINE] Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS):
  1. Principles of Test Construction
  2. [DEFINE] Standardization:
  3. [DEFINE] Normal Curve:
  4. [DEFINE & APPLY TO TEST CONTRUCTION] Reliability:
  1. [DEFINE & APPLY TO TEST CONSTRUCTION] Validity:
  2. [DEFINE & PROVIDE EXAMPLE OF] Content Validity:
  1. [DEFINE & PROVIDE EXAMPLE OF] Predictive Validity:
  1. The Dynamics of Intelligence
  2. [SUMMARIZE] Stability or Change: What happens over the course of our lifetimes?
  1. Extremes of Intelligence
  2. The Low Extreme
  3. [DEFINE] Mental Retardation:
  4. [DEFINE] Down Syndrome:
  5. [SUMMARIZE] The High Extreme:
  1. Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence
  2. [SUMMARIZE & IDENTIFY IMPORTANCE OF] Twin & Adoption Studies:
  1. [DEFINE & IDENTIFY IMPORTANCE OF] Heritability:
  1. Environmental Influences
  2. [SUMMARIZE] Early Environmental Influences:
  1. [SUMMARIZE IMPORTANCE OF] Schooling & Intelligence:
  1. Group Differences in Intelligence Test Scores
  2. [IDENTIFY AND DESCRIBE] Gender Similarities & Differences
  3. Spelling:
  4. Verbal Ability:
  5. Nonverbal Memory:
  6. Sensation:
  7. Emotion-Detecting Ability:
  8. Math & Spatial Attitudes:
  9. Greater Male Variability:
  10. [SUMMARIZE] Ethnic Similarities and Differences
  1. The Question of Bias
  2. [SUMMARIZE] Two Meanings of Bias
  3. [SUMMARIZE] Test-Taker’s Expectations
  1. [DEFINE & APPLY]Stereotype threat: