Variations in Psychological Attributes
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Distinctiveness and variations among people's characteristics and behaviour patterns | Individual Differences |
Uses systematic testing procedures to evaluate abilities, behaviours, and personal qualities of individual | Psychological assessment |
Objective and standardised measure of a person's mental and/or behavioural characteristics | Psychological Test |
Person provides factual information about himself and opinions, beliefs etc that he holds | Self-report |
The power of perceiving, learning, understanding, and knowing | Oxford Intelligence |
Ability to judge well, understand well, and reason well | Binet Intelligence |
The global and aggregate capacity of an individual to think rationally, act. purposefully and to deal effectively with his environment | Wechsler Intelligence |
The ability to adapt, to shape and select environment to accomplish one's goals and those of one's society and culture | Sternberg Intelligence |
Intelligence is an aggregate of abilities | Psychometric Approach |
Describes processes people use in intellectual reasoning and problem solving | Information-Processing Approach |
One similar set of abilities which can be used for solving any or every problem in an individual's environment | Uni/One factor theory by Alfred Binet |
Intelligence consists of general factors and specific factors, formulated using statistical method | Two factor theory by Charles Spearman |
Intelligence consists of seven primary abilities which are relatively independent of each other | Theory of Primary Abilities by Louis Thurstone |
Abilities operate at two levels - level I ( associative learning ) and level II ( cognitive competence ) | Hierarchical Model of Intelligence by Arthur Jensen |
Classification of traits among three dimensions- operations, contents and products | Structure of Intellect model by J.P Guilford |
Different types of intelligences exist which interact and work together to find a solution | Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner |
Skills in scientific thinking and problem solving | Logical-Mathematical |
Sensitivity to subtle aspects of other's behaviours | Interpersonal |
Sensitivity to features of the natural world | Naturalistic |
Three types of basic intelligence - componential, experiential and contextual | Triarchic Theory of Intelligence by Robert Sternberg |
Analysis of information to solve problems involving knowledge acquisition, higher order component and performance component | Componential/Analytical intelligence |
Using past experiences creatively to solve novel problems and integrating different experiences in a original way | Experiential/Creative Intelligence |
Ability to deal with environmental demands encountered on daily basis | Contextual/ Practical Intelligence |
Intellectual activity involves interdependent functioning of the functional units of brain | PASS Model of Intelligence by JP Das, Jack Naglieri and Kirby |
Enable a person to process information | Arousal and attention |
Perceiving the relations among various concepts and integrating them into a meaningful pattern for comprehension | Simultaneous processing |
Remembering all the information serially so that recall of one leads to recall of another | Successive processing |
Biological age from birth | Chronological age |
Mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100 | Intelligence Quotient |
The 2% of the population which has IQ above 130 | Intellectually Gifted |
The 2-3% of population that has an IQ below 70 | Intellectually Disabled |
AAMD | American Association Mental Deficiency |
Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behaviour and manifested during the developmental period | Intellectual Disability |
Test which can be administered to one person at a time e | Individual Intelligence test |
Test that can be administered to several persons simultaneously | Group intelligence test |
Tests which use pictures or illustrations as test items | Non-verbal tests |
Tests that require subjects. to manipulate objects and other materials to perform a task | Performance tests |
Tests that do not discriminate against individuals belonging to different cultures | Culture fair tests |
Intelligence that includes skills of generalisation and abstraction, speed, minimal moves, and mental manipulation | Technological Intelligence |
Intelligence that gives emphasis on connectivity with the social and world environment | Integral Intelligence |
Sensitivity to context, understanding, discrimination, problem solving, and effective communication | Cognitive Capacity |
Respect for. social order, commitment to elders, the young and the needy, concern about others, recognising others perspectives | Social Competence |
Self-regulation and self monitoring of emotions, honesty, politeness, good conduct and self-evaluation | Emotional Competence |
Commitment, persistence, patience, hard work, vigilance and goal-directed behaviours | Entrepreneurial Competence |
A set of skills that underlie accurate appraisal, expression, and regulation of emotions | Emotional Intelligence |
The ability to monitor one's own and other's emotions, to discriminate among them and to use the information to guide one's thinking and actions | Salovey and Mayer - Emotional Intelligence |