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| mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. |
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| viewing an abstract immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing. example IQ |
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| Two controversies about intelligence |
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1. is intelligence a single overall ability or several specific abilities? 2. With the tools neuroscience now offers, can we locate aand measure intelligence within the brain? |
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a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test: used to identifydifferent dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score. Example:people who do well on vocabulary terms also do well on paragraph comprehension. |
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| general intewlligence factor that according to Charles Spearmen and others underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test. |
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| LL Thurstone opponent of Spearman |
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1. 56 different tests 2. identify 7 clusters of primary mental abilities 3. other imvestigators studied the profiles of the subjects detected a small tendency for those who excelled in cluster to score well inother clusters. (evidence of g) |
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| a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exception specific skill., such as computation or drawing. 4 out 5 people with this syndrome are males , many are autistic |
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| Howard Gardner multiple intelligences |
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eight intelligences linguistic, logical mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic. |
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| Robert Sternberg: Triarchic Theory |
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three intelligences 1. analytical (academic problem solving) intelligence. Assessed by intelligence tests, which present well define problems having a single right answer. 2. creatice intelligence: demonsteated in reacting adaptively to novel situations and generating novel ideas. 3. practical intelligence: often required for everyday tasks, which are frequently illdefined with multiple solutions. |
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| Criticism of Sterberg's theory |
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| three intelligences are not as independent of one another as he thinks, and actually share an underlying intelligence. |
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| the ability to preceive, understand, manage, and use emotions. also know as social intelligence. |
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the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. There is little correlation between intelligence and creativity. |
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| thinking pointed towards one solution |
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| is more closely associated with creativity. divergent thinking is thinking that searches for multiple answers to a question. |
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| Five compoents of Creativity |
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1. Expertise 2. imaginative thinking skills 3. a venturesome personality 4. intrinsic motivation 5. a creative environment
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