Learning Objectives

These are the concepts and the learning objectives for Chapter 9. Read them carefully as part of your preliminary survey of the chapter.

Defining Intelligent Behavior

1. Define intelligence and the issues related to its definition. (pp. 260-261)

2. Discuss how intelligence is measured, the definition of intelligence quotient, and how achievement and aptitude tests differ from intelligence tests. (pp. 261-265)

3. Distinguish between reliability and validity with regard to psychological and intelligence testing. (pp. 265-266)

4. Describe the alternative views of intelligence, including the g-factor, fluid and crystallized intelligence, and Gardner's model of multiple intelligences. (pp. 268-269)

5. Explain how cognitive psychologists use information processing to describe intelligence, and briefly describe the search for the biological basis of intelligence. (pp. 269-271)

6. Describe the concepts of practical intelligence and emotional intelligence, and discuss whether performance on achievement tests can be improved with training. (pp. 271-274)

Variations in Intellectual Ability

7. Define mental retardation and describe its various classifications. (pp. 275-276)

8. Discuss the causes of mental retardation and the care and treatment of retarded individuals. (p. 276)

9. Define and describe intellectual giftedness. (pp. 276-277)

Individual Differences in Intelligence

10. Discuss the problem of cultural bias in intelligence tests and the attempts to produce a culture-fair IQ test. (pp. 278-29)

11. Analyze the issues related to the heredity versus environment debate in the study of intelligence. (pp. 279-282)