Intelligence

Intelligence

1. History of Intelligence

   • Galtons Elite Class
     • He believed that..
       • Intelligence was inherited
       • Intelligence predicted occupational life and academic achievement
       • People learn through their sense
     • Method of measuring
       • Anthropometrics

2. What it is

   • Overall capacity to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal effectively with the environment
     • Problem with intelligence
       • Don't know exactly what intelligence is
       • Dont know how to measure it

3. Intelligence testing

   • Intellectual Intelligence (IQ)
     • Devised method
       • Alfred Binet
         • Children unable to learn in school
     • Fun fact
       • One of the best-known psychological predictors!
     • What does it predict
       • Poor predictors of adult performance on individuals who are three years old and below
       • Academic achievement
       • Career success and income
       • Crime and corruption
   • Wechsler Scales
     • Subtypes for different age categories
       • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
       • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
       • Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
   • Kaufman's Assessment Battery for Children
   • Wonderlic Test

4. Theories of Intelligence

   • "g" factor
     • Creation
       • Charles Spearman
         • Believed that intelligence was made up of two factors
           • General factors affecting all tasks
           • Specific factors affecting particular tasks
         • Questioned this model
           • Thurstone
             • Why?
               • He argued there were many kinds of intelligence not governed by a g-factor
                 • Numerical
                 • Verbal comprehension
                 • Word fluency
                 • Space relations
                 • Reasoning
                 • Memory
                 • Perceptual speed
       • Early 1900s
   • Sternbergs Triarchic Theory
     • Identified three types of intelligence
       • Anlytical
       • Practical
       • Creative
   • Emotional Intelligence
     • What is it
       • Built up over a lifetime
       • Can be a predictor of success
     • Daniel Goleman believed intelligence was made up of four factor
       • Self-awarness
       • Self-regulation
       • Empathy
       • Skilled relationships
   • Multiple Intelligences
     • Howard Gardner believed
       • Intelligence is much more complex
         • Logical/mathematical
         • Verbal/linguistic
         • Visual/spatial
         • Musical/rythmic
         • Body/kinesthetic
         • Naturalist
         • Interpersonal
         • Intrapersonal
         • Exstential