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Chapter 9

Chapter 9. Intelligence and Psychological Testing. Are Gifted People Easily Identified? You have been asked to select a student, based on the three biographies below, to enroll in a new program for gifted students. Look over the three biographies and decide which student you would choose.

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Chapter 9

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  1. Chapter 9 Intelligence and Psychological Testing

  2. Are Gifted People Easily Identified? You have been asked to select a student, based on the three biographies below, to enroll in a new program for gifted students. Look over the three biographies and decide which student you would choose. Candidate 1Candidate 2Candidate 3 Name Bill Brown Alvin Lane Allen Erickson Appearance Average Plain Homely I.Q. 180+ 112 82 School Behavior Aloof, Organizer Well-liked Unsociable, disturbed Physical Health Excellent Large for age Sickly Emotional Health Excellent Easygoing, poor self-concept Had emotional breakdown Interests Chess, Math Sports, reading, telling jokes Withdraws to fantasy world Career Goals None mentioned Work in a retail store None mentioned Personal Goals None mentioned Businessman Independence from family Talents Photographic Good debater Plays violin, likes to read memory, published alone. original math formula at age 10

  3. Key Concepts in Psychological Testing • Standardization • Test norms • Standardization group • Reliability (consistency) • Correlation coefficient • Validity (measure what it was designed) • Content validity – physics questions on psychology test=poor content validity • Criterion-related validity- correlating scores with criterion, gives predictive ability (independent test) • SAT’s and grades in college • Construct validity-do IQ tests really measure intelligence

  4. Principle Types of Psychological Tests • Mental ability tests • Intelligence – general • Aptitude – specific • Personality scales • Measure motives, interests, values, and attitudes

  5. Assessing Intelligence • Aptitude Test • a test designed to predict a person’s future performance • aptitude is the capacity to learn • Achievement Test • a test designed to assess what a person has learned

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  7. The Evolution of Intelligence Testing • Sir Francis Galton (1869) • Hereditary Genius – intelligence is inherited • Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon (1905) • Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale - identify children in need of special training • Mental age • Lewis Terman (1916) – first US version • Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale • Intelligence Quotient (IQ) – MA/CA x 100 • David Wechsler (1955) • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – verbal IQ & performance IQ

  8. Reliability and Validity of IQ tests • Exceptionally reliable – correlations into the .90s • Qualified validity – valid indicators of academic/verbal intelligence, not intelligence in a truly general sense • Correlations: • .40s-.50s with school success • .60s-.80s with number of years in school • Predictive of occupational attainment, debate about predictiveness of performance • IQ scores correlate with # of years in school which correlates with high status jobs. • but doesn’t account for motivation, determination

  9. Extremes of Intelligence: Mental Retardation • Diagnosis based on IQ and adaptive testing • IQ 2 or more SD below mean • Adaptive skill deficits • Origination before age 18 • 4 levels: mild, moderate, severe, profound • Mild most common by far • Causes: • Environmental vs. Biological • Origins of mental retardation may include organic syndromes, as 350 biological conditions that can cause mental retardation have been identified. Diagnosticians are, however, only able to pin down an organic cause in <25% of cases. • Environmental theories hold that unfavorable environmental factors may contribute to the development of mild mental retardation; things like neglect, inadequate nutrition and medical care, and lower quality schooling.

  10. Extremes of Intelligence: Mental Retardation • Mental Retardation • a condition of limited mental ability • indicated by an intelligence score below 70 • produces difficulty in adapting to the demands of life • varies from mild to profound • PKU (phenylketonuria) • enzyme disorder (genetic) • can’t metabolize some amino acids - untreated can cause mental retardation • Down Syndrome • retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one’s genetic makeup

  11. Extremes of Intelligence: Giftedness • Identification issues – ideals vs. practice • IQ 2 SD above mean standard • Creativity, leadership, special talent? • Stereotypes – weak, socially inept, emotionally troubled • Lewis Terman (1925) – largely contradicted stereotypes • Ellen Winner (1997) – moderately vs. profoundly gifted • Giftedness and high achievement – beyond IQ • Renzulli (2002) – intersection of three factors • high intelligence, high creativity, and high motivation • Simonton (2001) – drudge theory and inborn talent

  12. Intelligence: Heredity or Environment? • Heredity • Family and twin studies • Heritability estimates – estimate of variation due to genetic inheritence • Environment • Adoption studies • Cumulative deprivation hypothesis • The Flynn effect – increase in IQ scores due to environment • Interaction • The concept of the “reaction range” • genetically determined limits on IQ. The environment determines whether a person will fall at the upper or lower end of their genetically determined range

  13. Cultural Differences in IQ • Heritability as an Explanation • Aurthur Jensen (1969) – cultural differences hereditary • Herrnstein and Murray (1994) – The Bell Curve • Environment as an Explanation • Kamin’s cornfield analogy – socioeconomic disadvantage • Steele (1997) - stereotype vulnerability

  14. New Directions in the Study of Intelligence • Increased emphasis on specific abilities • Moving beyond Spearman’s g • Guilford’s 150 distinct mental abilities. • Fluid vs. crystallized intelligence • reasoning, memory, speed vs. acquired knowledge • Biological Indexes of Intelligence • Reaction time and inspection time • Cognitive Conceptualizations of Intelligence • Sternberg’s triarchic theory and successful intelligence • analytical, creative, and practical • Expanding the Concept of Intelligence • Gardner’s multiple intelligences • Goleman’s emotional intelligence - ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion.

  15. General Intelligence - “g factor” • factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities measured by every task on an intelligence test

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