Intelligence

1. Intelligence

2. Intelligence • Intelligence is defined as a mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations • One way to test your intelligence is by taking an intelligence test which is a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes, and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores

3. Sternberg’s Three Intelligences • Analytical Intelligence: this deals with your intelligence to solve problems – more academic focused • Creative Intelligence: reaction to situations and generating ideas • Practical Intelligence: is required for everyday tasks – managerial skills, delegating tasks, preforming responsibilities

4. Creativity • Creativity is defined as the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP-eXxOpQU8

5. Five Components of Creativity • Expertise: a well-developed base of knowledge, furnishes the ideas, images, and phrases we use as mental building blocks – the more blocks we have the more we can combine them to create more things • Imaginative thinking skills: provide the ability to see things in novel ways, to reorganize patterns, and to make connections. • A venturesome personality: seeks new experiences, tolerates ambiguity and risk and perseveres in overcoming obstacles. • Intrinsic Motivation: is being driven by interest, satisfaction, and challenge rather than external pressures • A creative environment: sparks, supports, and refines creative ideas

6. Emotional Intelligence • Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3k7lykTWTk

7. Testing Intelligence • Mental Age: a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Alfred Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8 • Achievement tests: a test designed to assess what a person has learned • Aptitude test: a test designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR26DeG9e1E

8. Intelligence Disorders • Mental retardation: a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound • Down syndrome: a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnY5578YQ0

9. Extreme Intelligence • There are cases of children scoring perfect scores on the ACT and SAT at a young age • Only 3-5% of children are gifted • Gifted children may be gifted in one skill but not in others

10. Various Studies • Studies show that adoption enhances the intelligence scores of mistreated or neglected children. • Fraternal twins, who are genetically no more alike than other siblings, but are treated more alike because they are the same age – tend to score more alike than other siblings • A person’s environment can effect their test scores

11. Gender Differences • Females are typically better spellers, better in verbal fluency, better at remembering and locating objects, more sensitive to touch, taste and odor, and better emotion detectors. • Females display an edge in math computation, but males score better in math problem solving. • Males are better with problem solving due to interests like video games, and chess. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3RP5M7f7ig