Understanding Psychology (10th Ed)

E VA LU AT E
1.
is a measure of intelligence that takes into 
account a person’s chronological and mental ages.
2. Some psychologists make the distinction between 
intelligence, which refl ects reasoning, 
memory, and information-processing capabilities, and 
intelligence, which is the information, skills, 
and strategies that people have learned through 
experience.
3. Psychologists using an 
approach 
to intelligence focus on the way people store information 
in memory and use that information to solve intellectual 
tasks.
R E T H I N K
1. What is the role of emotional intelligence in the 
classroom? How might emotional intelligence be tested? 
Should emotional intelligence be a factor in determining 
academic promotion to the next grade?
2. From the human resource specialist’s perspective: Job 
interviews are really a kind of test, but they rely on 
interviewers’ judgments and have no formal validity or 
reliability. Do you think job interviews can be made to 
have greater validity and reliability?
Answers to Evaluate Questions 
1. IQ;
2.
fl
uid, crystallized;
3.
information-pr
ocessing
K E Y T E R M S 
intelligence p. 280
g or g-factor p. 280
fl uid intelligence p. 280
crystallized 
intelligence p. 281
theory of multiple 
intelligences p. 281
practical intelligence p. 284
emotional 
intelligence p. 285
intelligence 
tests p. 287
mental age p. 288
intelligence quotient 
(IQ) p. 288
reliability p. 291
validity p. 291