Intelligence part 3

Intelligence part 3

1. Parieto-frontal Integration theory (P-FIT) by Jung and Haier (2007)

   • Intelligence arises from integration of activity among a network of brainsites

2. Motivation, Attitudes to tests and perseverance in the face of a challange might contribute to intellectual ffunctioning

3. Practical Intelligence (Robert Sternberg)

   • Predictor of Business success but no correlation to IQ
   • The ability to solve everyday problems
   • Tacit Knowledge is everyday "How to" knowledge

4. Emotional Intelligence

   • Shapes what we remember
   • Guides our attention
   • Guides problem solving and decision making
   • Bility to manage, understand,percieve and use emotion

5. Savant Syndrome: someone is exceptional and one thing but possibly autistic in others

6. Understanding of Intelligence needs to take cultural differences in to account

7. MZ twins (identical) have more simiar IQ's than DZ twins

   • shows a genetic component to intelligence
   • Impoverished environments can impede Intellectual developement
     • correlation of 40 between IQ scores and socioeconomic Status