Intelligence and Mental Abilities

  • Stanford-Binet IQ test
  • Weschler Scales – WISC, WAIS
  • IQ
  • Reliability – what, how measured?
  • Validity – types
  • Hoe reliable are IQ tests?
  • How valid are IQ tests
  • Fairness of IQ tests – are they biased?
  • Nature/nurture issue in intelligence…evidence foe each side
  • Group differences in IQ scores…how can IQ scores be raised?
  • Psychometric approach to intelligence – Spearman
  • Factor analysis
  • Information-processing approach
  • Triarchical theory of intelligence – Sternberg
  • Multiple intelligences – Gardner
  • Relationship between creativity and intelligence
  • Divergent v. convergent thinking
  • Categories of mental retardation
  • Learning disabilities: dyslexia, dysgraphia
  • Fluid v. crystallized intelligence
  • Effect of age on information processing