Lewis Terman coined the term g factor on the basis of his observations that test scores, which measured different types of intellectual ability, appeared related.
Bodily/Kinetic intelligence is one of the three types of intelligence in Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences proposed eight forms of intelligence that were ordered from greater to lesser importance.
Traditional IQ tests better predict real world success than Sternberg's tests of practical intelligence.
The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was found to be not useful in testing adults.
According to the original IQ formula, a 40-yr-old with the same IQ score as the average 20-year-old would be considered mentally retarded.
If tests are reliable, they are also always valid.
Intellectually gifted people are long on "book sense" but short on "common sense."
The speed at which you process information is NOT related to intelligence.
Standardized and normed IQ tests are reliable.
A high IQ is a protective feature against a wide spectrum of teenage sexual behaviors.
In some states, it is now illegal to place children in classes for the mentally retarded based solely on their IQ scores.
Many poor and minority children have been erroneously placed in special education programs as a result of their performance of standardized IQ tests.
In some states, the use of IQ tests in conjunction with educational placement is banned altogether.
According to Bouchard, children who are not related biologically but are raised in the same home are no more similar in intelligence once they reach adulthood than complete strangers.
Adoption studies reveal that children adopted shortly after birth have IQs more closely resembling their adoptive parents than their biological parents.
Arthur Jenson attributed the IQ gap between the races to be a byproduct of poverty.
IQ scores of adopted children tend to resemble those of their biological parents more than their adopted families.
IQ gains can happen over a relatively short period of time when standards of living change drastically.
In contrast to Asian teachers, American teachers spent more time on each kind of problem and did NOT move on to another until they were certain that students understood the first.
Students in the eighth-grade in the United States use calculators to solve math problems more often than those in Japan.
Those who are high in emotional intelligence often emerge as leaders.