Individual Variations

Individual Variations

1. Intelligence

   • Ability to solve problems
   • Capacity to adapt and learn from the experience
   • Robert Sternberg
     • proposes that
       • that practical know-how should be considered part of intelligence
   • Lev Vygotsky
     • includes
       • ability to use the tools of the culture with help from more-skilled individuals

2. Intelligence Tests

   • The Binet Test:
     • In 1912 William Stern created the concept
       • Intelligence quotient (IQ)
         • It refers to a person's mental age divided by chronological age (CA)

3. Theories of multiple intelligences

   • Triarchic theory of intelligence
     • Robert J. Sternberg
       • Analytical
         • Creative
           • Practical
   • Gardner's Eight Frames of Mind
     • Howard Gardner
       • Verbal skills
         • Mathematical skills
           • Spatial skills
             • Bodily kinesthetic skills
       • Musical skills
         • Intrapersonal skills
           • Naturalist skills
             • Interpersonal skills
   • Emotional Intelligence
     • Peter Salovey and John Mayer
       • To understand emotion and emotional knowledge
         • To perceive and express emotion adaptively
           • To monitor one's own and others' emotions and feelings
             • To use this information to guide one's thinking and action

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