Lifespan Exam 3 Questions And Answers
2026 Update!!!
Intelligence Can we adapt/learn from experiences?
Early 1900s
Found a way to determine which students
Alfred Binet needed extra help
Developed a test that started easy and got
harder
Where someone is at for intelligence level
Mental age Could be 7yrs old and have the mental age of
9yrs and vice versa
Refined Binet’s test after Binet died
Lewis Terman Added info/adapted, created the standard
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Actual calculation
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Mental age divided by chronological age x 100
Score is compared to the averages of other
How IQ is measured today people of same relative chronological age to
give mental age
What did Lewis Terman develop? Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 5th ed.
Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-V Verbal performance and total score
Tests step-by-step thinking
A lot of flexibility in how the test is given
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
Person giving the test could give in different
language, use gestures, different wording, etc.
, Complaints about bias based on cultural
backgrounds
Role of Culture on Intelligence To reduce bias different tests were made
Raven Progressive Matrices Test
There are no culturally fair tests
Uses abstract things instead of questions that
Raven Progressive Matrices Test
are factual
Fluid
Categories of Intelligence
Crystallized
Information processing
Fluid Intelligence
Memory, reasoning
Crystallized Intelligence Skills, cumulative information
Analytical
Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence Creative
Practical
Analytical 1 correct answer
Creative Using past experiments to problem solve
Practical Street smarts, adapting - thinking on the fly
Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Musical
Bodily Kinesthetic
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence
Spatial
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
Individuals who are good at using language
Can argue, persuade, entertain through
Linguistic
language
Ex: Poets, authors, translators
Logical / Mathematical Good use of logic or numbers
2026 Update!!!
Intelligence Can we adapt/learn from experiences?
Early 1900s
Found a way to determine which students
Alfred Binet needed extra help
Developed a test that started easy and got
harder
Where someone is at for intelligence level
Mental age Could be 7yrs old and have the mental age of
9yrs and vice versa
Refined Binet’s test after Binet died
Lewis Terman Added info/adapted, created the standard
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Actual calculation
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Mental age divided by chronological age x 100
Score is compared to the averages of other
How IQ is measured today people of same relative chronological age to
give mental age
What did Lewis Terman develop? Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 5th ed.
Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-V Verbal performance and total score
Tests step-by-step thinking
A lot of flexibility in how the test is given
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
Person giving the test could give in different
language, use gestures, different wording, etc.
, Complaints about bias based on cultural
backgrounds
Role of Culture on Intelligence To reduce bias different tests were made
Raven Progressive Matrices Test
There are no culturally fair tests
Uses abstract things instead of questions that
Raven Progressive Matrices Test
are factual
Fluid
Categories of Intelligence
Crystallized
Information processing
Fluid Intelligence
Memory, reasoning
Crystallized Intelligence Skills, cumulative information
Analytical
Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence Creative
Practical
Analytical 1 correct answer
Creative Using past experiments to problem solve
Practical Street smarts, adapting - thinking on the fly
Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Musical
Bodily Kinesthetic
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence
Spatial
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
Individuals who are good at using language
Can argue, persuade, entertain through
Linguistic
language
Ex: Poets, authors, translators
Logical / Mathematical Good use of logic or numbers
