LECTURE 8B Intelligence

INTELLIGENCE “the mental abilities needed to achieve goals and solve problems”

INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT: (Mental age/Chronological age) x 100

FACTOR ANALYSIS a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of closely related factors

Vocabulary Verbal Similarities Digit-Symbol Substitution Arithmetic Reasoning

Linguistic Logical-mathematical Musical Spatial Bodily-kinesthetic Intrapersonal (self) Interpersonal (other people) Naturalist Gardner’s Eight Intelligences

STANDARDIZATION defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested comparison group

RELIABILITY the extent to which a test yields consistent results

VALIDITY the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to