chapter 11 Flashcards
what is a widely accepted definition of intelligence?
Intelligence involves the ability to learn from experience, to acquire knowledge, to reason and to solve problems, to deal with people and objects , and to adapt effectively to the environment
what is binet’s view on intelligence?
name something he did in his career to develop the understanding of intelligence?
binet developed the first intelligence test widely used around the world.The test was designed to assess and predict performance at school. he used this test in the 1900’s when the french gov made a law that all children went to school so he used his test on intelligence to identify the children with learning dificulties.
binet viewed intelligence as a general ability associated with specific, but related, mental functions such as reasoning, memory, vocabulary,length and quality of attention, and perceptual judgement.
he also assumed intelligence is age related
what is binet’s view on intelligence?
“Wechsler viewed intelligence as the ‘global and aggregate capacity to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with the environment’.”
he believed that many psychologist viewed intelligence too narrow and only tested primary abilities that allow us to be good or not good at school
- conditions that should be present for intelligent behaviour?
awareness: intelligent behaviour is when your aware or what your doing and why you are doing it, intelligent behaviour is intentional.
Goal directed:intelligent behaviour has a purpose not at random it is deliberately targeted
rational: behaviour is consistent and appropriate to complete goals
worthwhile: intelligence is valued by others -its constructive and useful
He viewed intelligence as: individual , group or the whole society seeing intelligence based on what they find worthwhile, valuable and meaningful in that moment.
the eight intelligence as identified by gardner
9th intelligence howard believed in describe your answer
linguistic intelligence:Use of words and language
musical intelligence:Great understanding of pitch rhythm and timbre in music
logical:using sequence of logical steps to solve problems such as ordering, reordering numbers of objects to measure quantity.
spatial intelligence:mentally forming visual objects of real objects and events.
bosily kinesthetic intelligence:Using body skilfully ex athlet, dancer
interpersonal intelligence:Ability to understand self well such as own feelings and to guide own behaviour well.
interpersonal intelligence: Ability to read others moods motivations intentions and internal states and act effectively with this knowledge.
naturalistic intelligence:Ability to recognise natural objects and categorise them.
9-existential intelligence:Ability to raise question about existence of life and death.
believed in 3 parts of intelligence what are they
analytical intelligence is the ability to complete academic problem solving tasks.These types of tasks usually involve a single correct answer.Analytical intelligence is also the ability to analyse or break down problems and devise strategies to solve them.
Creative intelligence is the ability to deal with new and unusual situations by drawing from existing skills and knowledge.
creative intelligence also involves using your imagination to create a story, paint an artwork or an advertisement creative intelligence is unlike analytical intelligence because creative intelligence is open ended with many different answers.
practical intelligence is the ability to adapt to everyday life by drawing from existing knowledge and skills you would use practical intelligence with both personal and practical problems you may also use practical intelligence when placed in an un usual situation in life.
believes successful intelligence is if a individual is sufficiently strong in the three intelligences, then the three parts will be well balanced and when this occurs the person will have what he calls successful intelligence
what is involved in binet test?
Binet’s test was translated and revised by Lewis Terman to become more suitable for American children and extend the intelligence test to adults. been revised 5 times since aimed at people aged between 2 and 85+ years takes up to 45 - 60 minutes to complete assess 5 cognitive abilities: Fluid Reasoning Knowledge Quantitative Reasoning Visual-Spatial Processing Working Memory
what is involved in wechslr’s test
- There are a variety of Wechsler tests - dependent on age and ability (WAIS - R - NI). Most widely used is the WAIS (Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale) - takes 90min to complete.
- contains 10 core (‘compulsory’) tests which covers the following four categories:
- Verbal Comprehension
- Perpetual Reasoning
- Verbal Memory
- Processing Speed
- balance of language dependent and non-language dependent - useful for people with language difficulties
- scores are obtained for each category and can be calculated together to identify IQ score.
- Used for diagnostic purpose - can you think of any?
