April 14 EQ- What is intelligence?

Agenda: 1. Daily Sheet 2. Wrap-up Personality Unit 3. Intro to Intelligence

• Survey • Notes • The Real Rain Man

Table of Contents: 162. April 14 163. Intelligence Notes 164. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Survey 165. Sternberg’s Intelligence Survey

HW- Personality Take-home test! Work

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Intelligence – the ability to learn from experience, solve problems and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

Measured with Intelligence tests

How do you define intelligence?

• Behaviors that indicate intelligence:

• 1. ability to learn from experience

• 2. ability to solve problems

• 3. ability to use information to adapt to

the environment

• 4. ability to benefit from training

Theories on Intelligence

Is Intelligence ONE trait or MORE than one?

One More than One

Kinds of Intelligence:

• Charles Spearman – he believed

(using factor analysis) that one important factor (g) – general factor- underlies all intelligence.

• People who excel in one area are usually talented in others

• The g-factor- a common skill set for all intelligent behavior

Is there one type or many different

types?

Another Opinion: Louis Thurstone

• Thurstone – Disagreed with Spearman and came up with seven distinct factors he called – Primary Mental Abilities.

• Inductive reasoning, word fluency, perceptual speed, verbal comprehension, spatial visualization, numerical ability, and associate memory.

John Horn and Raymond Cattell

• Believed that Spearman’s (g) should be divided into two factors of intelligence

• Fluid intelligence – cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning (diminish with age)

• Crystallized intelligence – learned knowledge and skills that tend to increase with age. (vocab)

Robert Sternberg: Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

• Robert Sternberg: Triarchic Theory of Intelligence:

• 1. Analytic – What is tested by traditional intelligence tests; academic intelligence

• 2. Creative – How we adapt to tough situations

• 3. Practical – “streetsmarts” – ability to read and perceive people, figure out directions, etc.

Which of the Triarchic Intelligences do you rely on

most?

Multiple Intelligences: Howard Gardner

• Howard Gardner – critic of (g) approach

• Believed that there are 9 approaches to intelligence

• He believed that these abilities represent ways that people process information differently in the world.

• Used Savant Syndrome as evidence of this..

Which of the multiple intelligences do you have?

Savant Syndrome

• Someone with otherwise limited mental ability has an exceptional specific skill • Ex: Can’t speak but is a human calculator. • 4/5 are men • Many also have autism

Ex: Kim Peek • Savant • Inspiration for Rain Man • Could read and remember a page in 8-10 seconds • Knew 9000 books by heart (including the Bible) • Could give googlemaps type of directions to any city in

the US BUT • Couldn’t button his own clothes and didn’t

understand anything abstract or figuative

Emotional Intelligence:

• Peter Salovey and John Mayer – combines Gardner’s inter and intrapersonal approaches

• Uses MEIS – Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale

• Tests the person’s ability to perceive, understand, and reguate emotions

Just Kidding!

Food For Thought:

• Is it better to have a high IQ or high EQ?

• Does it depend on what you will be doing with you life?

Concluding Thought:

• Psychologists, educators, and Psychometricians agree that intelligence tests measure the ability to take tests well

• They do not agree that all intelligence tests actually measure intelligence.

• Do you agree with them?