Module 22Intelligence
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Module 22 Intelligence
What is Intelligence?By: Roger Kim, Susan Park
One General Ability or Several Specific Abilities?
• Label people with the word “intelligence” or quantifying them with a number from some single scale
• Factor Analysis: enables researchers to identify clusters of test items that measure a common ability – Ex) Peter could be good at memorizing vocabulary
as well as paragraph comprehension this is a cluster
• Vicissitude: a change of circumstance or fortune, usually unpleasant
• Ubiquitous: present, appearing, found everywhere
• Zephyr: soft gentle breeze
Vocabulary Test
Vicissitude?
Ubiquitous?
Zephyr?
One General Ability or Several Specific Abilities?
• Charles Spearman (1863-1945)• General intelligence (g): a factor that underlies
the specific factors– Tendency of abilities to come in a package – G factor underlies all of our intelligent behavior• Ex) Peter might be good at generally everything
One General Ability or Several Specific Abilities?
• Howard Gardner (1983, 1993a,b, 1995)• Intelligence comes in different packages• Savant syndrome: a condition in which a person
otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing – They might score low on IQ tests, but have “an island
of brilliance” • Ex) Although Peter might be good at vocab etc., he is not
good at drawing
Draw this
One General Ability or Several Specific Abilities?
• A general intelligence does not give much specific information
• Robert Sternberg’s three aspects of intelligence: – Analytical (academic problem-solving) intelligence:
assessed by intelligence tests which have a single right answer
– Creative intelligence: reacting adaptively to new situations and generating new ideas
– Practical intelligence: assessed by everyday tasks which have multiple solutions
One General Ability or Several Specific Abilities?
• Sternberg (1998, 1999) and Gardner (1998) agree that…– Multiple abilities can contribute to life success– The differing varieties of giftedness add spice to
life and challenges for education
IQ Test• Question 1: A cynic is one who knows the price of everything
and the _________ of nothing.• Emotion• Meaning• Value• Quality• Question 2: Water is to glass as letter is to...• Stamp• Envelope• Pen• Mail• Question 3: Even the most ________ rose has thorns.• Weathered• Ugly• Beautiful• Tempting
Answers
• A• B• A