Intelligence
- The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
- Culturally specific
- Factor Analysis- Statistical procedure, identifies clusters of related items on a test
- General Intelligence- Charles Spearman
- Multiple Intelligences- Howard Gardner: Studied savants (limited mental ability except in one area)
- Types:
- Visual/Spatial
- Verbal/Linguistic
- Logical/Mathematical
- Bodily/Kinesthetic
- Musical/Rhythmic
- Interpersonal
- Intrapersonal
- Natural
- Sternberg’s Aspects:
- Analytical-problem solving
- Creative-novel ideas
- Practical-everyday tasks
- Emotional Intelligence
- Ability to perceive, express, understand, regulate emotion
- Assessing Intelligence
- Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon- Mental Age: what person of particular age should know
- IQ= (Mental Age/Chronological Age)100
- Doesn’t work with older people
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) Uses factor analysis
- Aptitude
- Test designed to predict person’s future performance
- Learning ability
- Achievement
- Assess what person has learned
- Tests must be:
- Standardized: Pre-tested, form normal distribution/bell curve
- Flynn Effect: Chart rises
- Reliability: Consistent
- Validity: How much a test measures what its supposed to
- Predictive
- Content
- Changes over time depending on type of intelligence (crystallized or fluid)
- Groups affect intelligent test scores
- Tests discriminate but we must look deeper
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