Exam 2 Review

What's the formula for calculating an IQ score?

• IQ = MA/CA * 100

• IQ = CA/MA * 100

Who is associated with the theory of multiple intelligences?

• Howard Gardner

• Robert Sternberg

• Daniel Goleman

What are some of the issues around IQ testing?

Who was Alfred Binet and what did he do?

• development of the first intelligence test

• discovered a psychometrically or statistically common factor among various tasks of intelligence

• known for 120 abilities is his test for divergent or convergent abilities

Individuals construct meaning from interactions. Each interaction provides new information that an individual organizes into a

• thought

• schema

• assimilation

• organism

What are the three kinds of intelligence that Sternberg discusses?

• Emotional, cognitive, and physical

• Analytic, creative, and practical intelligence

• Linguistic, musical, spatial

Fluid intelligence …

• Are abilities linked to biology and decrease with age

• Are abilities linked to learning experiences and increase with age

Students who come from a White environment are more likely to do well on _____________ test because they are more familiar with the culture of the test stories

• Culture-free

• Culture-fair

• Culture-biased

Preschoolers may have trouble sharing toys or understating why another child cries when they're hurt due to _______

• egocentrism

• animistic thinking

• centration

• disequilibrium

What are characteristics of a constructivist learning environment?

Answer explanation

potential answers: child-directed, make-believe play, teacher follows student's interests