Review Sheet for EDF211, Spring 2006

 

Final Exam -- Chapters 9 and 10

 

Chap.  9          Cognition: Information Processing

multistore model: 

            sensory store    

            working memory  

            long- term memory    

 

limited-resource model          

 

attention:   

            sustaining attention    

            deploying attention    

            selective attention (being selective)               

            metacognition

 

memory strategies:     

            rehearsal and rehearsal set

            organization – all kinds

            elaboration – all kinds


memory retrieval:

recognition     

recall      

reconstruction

recency effect           

primacy effect

 

 

Chap. 10         Intelligence

what is it?

 

conceptualizations / definitions:

psychometric approaches:       Spearman’s two factor – g and s

                                                Thurstone’s 7 components     

Guilford’s 180 factors

Cattell (and Horn):  Fluid and Crystallized

Intelligence

information processing approaches:

Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory  

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

 

Measuring intelligence – exceptionality:

            giftedness (above 130)

            mental retardation (special education) (below 70)

 

Standardized intelligence tests:

mean and standard deviation of IQ   

Individual IQ Tests:    Bayley      Stanford-Binet       WISC-III        K-ABC

Nonverbal (culture-fair):  Ravens Progressive Matrices

Group Tests:  Otis-Lennon School Abilities test

Stability of IQ

Predictive value of IQ tests

Test bias (culture-fair / culturally biased)

 

Factors related to intelligence:

            Genetic vs. environmental contribution

Racial Differences