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The correlation between iq scores and school grades
elementary school children: .50 or .60, also dependent on motivation, participation, teacher’s perceptions of attitude and effort
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Link between IQ and test of academic achievement?
Deary, Strand, Smith, and Fernandes (2007): 5-year prospective, longitudinal study of 70,000+ English children Correlation between g at age 11 and academic achievement in 25 subjects at age 16
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Is there a difference between IQ tests and tests of academic achievement?
- IQ tests: problem solving and information of a general nature; does not focus on specific skills from school curriculums
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correlation between academic performance and IQ in secondary schoool and college / uni
secondary school (.50)/ uni (.40)
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personality traits related with occupational status
- IQ tests: problem solving and information of a general nature; does not focus on specific skills from school curriculums
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Corelation between mental ability and occupational status ----and income
.50 .40
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Why do children with higher IQs tend to live longer than children with lower IQs?
low IQ at age 11 might reflect:4 things ..
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1) an “archaeological record” of prior health-related problems during childhood or before birth
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2) a record of bodily system integrity (body and brain are not functioning very well)
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a predictor of unhealthy behaviour (e.g., Physical fitness, Low-sugar diet, low-fat diet, alcoholism, smoking, obesity) a predictor of “health literacy”  understanding of health information and health risks
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4) a predictor of entry into unhealthy environments (e.g. stressful occupations)
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what did Deary, Whalley, and Starr (2003): find out
People with low childhood intelligence were more likely to die from lung and stomach cancer ~ childhood social privation and unhealthy behaviour (e.g. smoking)
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- Do persons who commit crimes have lower IQs or do persons who are caught for having committed crimes have lower IQs?- whos study......
Moffit & silva (1988)
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what test did moffitt & silva do?
compared three groups of youths group 1: delinquents who had been in contact with the police group 2: delinquents who had avoided contact with the police group 3: youths with no police contact and no delinquency
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what were the results
 group 3 scored higher on an intelligence test than groups 1 and 2  no difference between groups 1 and 2 - some indication that when high IQs commit crime the payoffs are higher and probability of arrest is lower
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Whi developed the theory of fluid and crystalized intelligence
Raymond Catell (1905-1998)
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what is fluid intelligence (Gf)
The ability to learn new things and solve novel problems, irrespective of previous knowledge (‘hardware’) /Tasks that measure a culture-free element of cognitive performance requiring a flexible response (e.g., reasoning ability)
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What is crystallized intelligence (Gc)
The ability to do well on tasks that require previous knowledge and is dependent on experience and education within a culture/ Tasks requires the use of well-learned skills/
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The Flynn effect?
People today score substantially higher on intelligence tests than people did a few generations ago
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difference in iq scores of 18 year olds of 2000 vs 1950
15 iq points higer (1sd)
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what should education influence?
Education should mainly influence verbal tests and crystallized intelligence
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What are the 8 types of intelligence in gareners theory
linguistic, Naturalistic, Intrapersonal, interpersonal, Bodily-kinesthetic,Musical, Spatial, Logical-mathemetical
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what is sternberg's Triatchic theory of intelligence
Analytic/ Creative/ Pratical
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Sternberg et al. (2000): Knowing the unwritten rules or tacit knowledge of how to succeed within an organization.
 compare respondents’ answers with answers of “successful” experts Higher match is related to better job performance, but still correlated with g
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Four branch model of emotional intelligence (mayer & Salovey)
1- managing emotions 2- understanding emotions and emotonal language 3- use emotions to facilitate thinking 4- perceiving emotions accurately in onelf and others
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How to measure Emotional Intelligence?
Trait Emotional Intelligence (TEI) versus Ability Emotional Intelligence (AEI)
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What is TEI and how do u test
emotion-related self-perceptions and dispositions  Self-report questionnaire: self-perceived use of emotional abilities
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What is AEI and how do you test
: set of abilities related to processing of emotional information that support the adaptive use of emotions (= cognitive processes)  Maximal performance test: emotional problem-solving task
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What test is used for trait emotional intelligence -
Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS) Salovey, Mayer, Goldman, Turvey, & Palfai (1995
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test used for ability emotional intelligence
Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) (perceiving emotions:identify emotions in pictures of faces)
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Big 5 relation - TEI
Strong relations with socially desirable personality traits Negatively related to neuroticism, positively related to Extraversion, and Conscientiousness Unrelated to grade point average and test scores (Brackett & Mayer, 2003; Newsome, Day, & Catan
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Big 5 relation AEI
modest positive correlations with Agreeableness and Openness / verbal-based tests of mental ability
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