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| Savant syndrome is retardation combined with incredible ability in one specific area the existence of savant syndrome seems to support |
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| Spearmans notion of general intelligence or g factor |
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| Intelligence tests predict school grades reasonably well but are less successful at predicting achievement in other areas robert strernberg has therefor id'd three aspects of intelligence which are |
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| Academic practical and creative |
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| Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive understand and regulate emotions Emotionally intelligent people are characterized by |
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| Creativity is the ability to produce novel and caluable ideas which of the following is not a creative characteristic : expertise extrinsic motivation a venturesome personality imaginative thinking skills |
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| The Wechsler adult inelligence scale yields an overall intelligence score as well as separate vebal and performance scores the wais is vest able to tell us |
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| How the test taker compares with other adults in vocab and arithmetic reasoning |
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| The stanford binet the wechsler asult intel scale and the wechsler intel scale for kids are known to have high reliability this means that |
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| the test yields consistent results for example on retesting |
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| About 50 percent of intelligence score variation among individuals can be attributed to heredity the strongest support for heredity's influence on intelligence is the finding that |
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| the correlation between intelligence test scores of fraternal twins is higher than that for other siblings |
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| The heritability of a trait may vary depending on the range of populations and environments studied to say that the heritablility of intelligence is about 50 percent of |
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| the variation in intelligence within a group of people is attributable to genetic factors |
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| Within the limits set by heredity experiences help shape intelligence the experience that has the clearest most profound effect on intellectual development is |
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| Being raised in a very neglectful home or institution |
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