Intelligence

Intelligence

1. General Intelligence

   • Galton
     • General Ability and showed in different ways
     • Believed it could be measured
   • Spearman
     • Specific Mental Abilities
     • Measured by every task on an intelligence test

2. Measuring Mental Age and Intelligence

   • Binet & Simon
     • To identify students that struggle with regular class at school
     • Had no effect on Adults
     • Created the first intelligence test
   • Terman
     • Produced the Stanford-Binet Test
     • IQ Test - Mental Age / Chronological Age x 100

3. Empirical Approaches

   • Wechsler
     • Developed modern empirical model - adults and children
     • Verbal and Non Verbal
     • Created Standardised testing

4. Multiple Intelligences

   • Gardner
     • Linguistic
       • Language
     • Kinesthetic
       • Physical
     • Musical
       • Understanding pitch, rhythm, tone
     • Spatial
       • Visual Images
     • Intra-personal
       • Personal
     • Interpersonal
       • Others
     • Logical Mathematical
       • Solving Problems

5. Emotional Intelligence

   • Golman
     • Ability to express and understand emotions
     • High emotional intelligence will increase self acceptance and social interactions

6. Intelligence Testing

   • Advantages
     • Global Understanding and heirachy of intelligence
     • Can help tailor education to individual needs
   • Disadvantages
     • Generic Testing
     • Restrict peoples understanding
     • Fish can't climb a tree scenario