| Term | Definition |
| What is intelligence? | A multifaceted capacity that manifests itself in different ways across the life span |
| What does intelligence include? | Acquired and apply knowledge, reason logically, plan effectively, make sound judgements and solve problems |
| Francis Galton | Intelligence is inherited, framed the nature/nurture debate, those that are intelligent ae equipped with best sensory abilities |
| Alfred Binet | Intelligence includes reasoning judgment memory and abstraction and these factors interact, finding and maintaining direction, adapting, self criticizing |
| David Wechsler | The aggregated or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully to think rationally and to deal effectively with his environment. |
| Jean Piaget | Schema, assimilation, accommmodation |
| Interactionism | Heredity and environment interact to influence the development of ones intelligence |
| factor-analytic theories | focus is squarely on idetifying the ability of groups of abilities that constitute intelligence |
| information processing theories | the focus is on identifying the specific mental processes that constitiute intelligence |
| interpersonal intelligence | the ability to understand other people what motivates them how they work, how to work cooperatively with them |
| intrapersonal intelligence | a capacity to form an accurate veridical model of oneself and to be able to use that model to operate effectively in life span |
| crystallized intelligence | include acquired skills and knowledge that are dependent on exposure to a particular culture as well as formal and informal education |
| fluid intelligence | are nonverbal, relatively culture-free and independent or specific instruction |
| vulnerable abilities | decline with age and tend to not return to preinjury levels following brain damage |
| maintained abilities | they tend to not decline with age and may return to preinjury levels following brain damage |
| simultaneous or parallel processing | information in intergrated all at one time painting |
| successive or sequential processing | each bit of information is individually processed in sequence law & order |
| PASS | Planning, Assessment, Simultaneous, Successive |
| Preformation | all living organism are preformed at birth and are unable to be improved |
| Predeterminism | ones abilites are predertermined by genetic in herietanceand that no ammount of learning or other intervention can enhance what has been genetically encoded to unfold in time |
| Culture loading | paper and pencil tasks printed instructions reading required speed tests |
| culture loading reduced | performance tests, oral instructions, oral responses power tests |
| sternberg types of intelliglnce | compontetial experiential contextual |
| sternberg analytical components | metacomponents performance acquasition retention transfer |
| types of intelligence tests | infancy children adults |
| special populations | disabilities, psych-logical disorders, gifted |