LECTURE TOPIC OUTLINE - CHAPTER 12 - INTELLIGENCE

• Defining Intelligence
• Operational Definition
• Aptitudes
• Special aptitude test
• Multiple Aptitude Test
• General Intelligence Test
• Reliability and Validity
• Reliability
• Some different types of reliability
• Validity
• Some different types of validity
• Other testing terms to be aware of
• Objective test
• Test standardization
• Norms
• Testing Intelligence
• Origination of testing
• Binet
• Intelligence Quotients
• Chronological Age & Mental Age
• Deviation IQ
• Stability of Intelligence over time
• Terminal decline
• The Wechsler Tests
• WAIS-III
• WISC-III
• WPPSI
• Group Testing
• Army Alpha & Army Beta
• Variations in Intelligence
• IQ is a normal distribution - a bell curve
• Sex & IQ
• IQ & Achievement
• Neisser Article
• The Gifted
• Gifted Children
• Giftedness and Achievement
• Identifying Gifted Children
• GATE (GT) programs
• Mental Retardation
• IQ + adaptive behaviors
• Different levels of mental retardation
• Causes of Retardation
• Familial
• Organic
• Birth injuries, fetal damage, metabolic disorders, genetic abnormalities
• PKU, Microcephaly, Hydrocephaly, Down Syndrome
• Heredity & Environment
• Hereditary Influences on Intelligence
• Twin studies
• Environmental Influences on Intelligence
• New Approaches to Intelligence
• Speed of Processing
• Multiple Intelligences
• G-factor vs. Gardner's theory.