Unit 8: Intelligence - AP Psychology Syllabus and Calendar

ET 8-1: Intelligence Overview
Intelligence Definition, Characteristics and Cultural Difference PowerPoint

Essential Task 8-1: Define intelligence, list characteristics psychologists include in their definition, and discuss how culture influences the definition of intelligence. 

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ET 8-2  Theories of Intelligence
Theories of Intelligence

Essential Task 8-2: Compare and contrast historic and contemporary theories of intelligence with specific attention to general intelligence, triarchic theory, crystallized/fluid intelligence, multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence. 

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ET 8-3 Testing in Psychology
Psychometrics

Essential Task 8-3:  Explain how psychologists design tests, including standardization strategies and other techniques to establish reliability and validity and interpret the meaning of scores in terms of the normal curve. 

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ET 8-4 Intelligence Testing

Essential Task 8-4:  Debate the appropriate testing practices, particularly in relation to the Stanford-Binet test, the WISC, the WAIS and culture-fair test uses. 

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ET 8-5 Mental Retardation and Giftedness

Essential Task 8-5:  Describe relevant labels related to intelligence testing (e.g., gifted, cognitively disabled, savant).

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ET 8-6

Socratic Seminar Prep Sheet

Essential Task 8-6: Debate what determines intelligence. 

• The General Intelligence Factor (factor analysis general intelligence filetype:pdf)
• IDENTIFYING GENERAL FACTORS OF INTELLIGENCE (factor analysis general intelligence filetype:pdf)
• Building a Functional MI Theory (multiple intelligence fmri filetype:pdf)
• Brain Imaging Studies of Intelligence and Creativity: What is the Picture for Education? (multiple intelligence fmri filetype:pdf)
• Inadequate Evidence for Multiple Intelligences, Mozart Effect, and Emotional Intelligence Theories (I got the name from the previous article and used the following search string - Lynn Waterhouse multiple intlelligence filetype:pdf
• The Science of Multiple Intelligences Theory: A Response to Lynn Waterhouse (Gardner & Moran, 2006 multiple intelligence filetype:pdf)
• IQ's OF IDENTICAL TWINS REARED APART (monozygotic twins intelligence correlations filetype:pdf)
• Brain size, head size, and intelligence quotient in monozygotic twins (monozygotic twins intelligence correlations filetype:pdf)
• Long-term effects of breastfeeding (breastfeeding intelligence protein filetype:pdf)
• A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Fairness of the Cattell Culture Fair Intelligence Test Using the Rasch Model (culture fair tests intelligence filetype:pdf)