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Module 22 Intelligence What is Intelligence? By: Roger Kim, Susan Park

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Module 22 Intelligence

What is Intelligence?By: Roger Kim, Susan Park

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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

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• Vicissitude: a change of circumstance or fortune, usually unpleasant

• Ubiquitous: present, appearing, found everywhere

• Zephyr: soft gentle breeze

Vocabulary Test

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Vicissitude?

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Ubiquitous?

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Zephyr?

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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

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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

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Draw this

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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

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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

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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

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Answers

• A• B• A