Intelligence

Intelligence

1. Traditional view

   • fixed, inherited
   • measurable - IQ/ standardised tests

2. modern view

   • brain plasticity
   • brain training does not improve IQ
   • Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
   • Sternberg's triarchic theory
   • Carrol's 3 stratum theory

3. increasing memory - associated with scholastic success

   • Dual n-back procedure improves fluid intelligence
     • Jaeggi et al 2008, working memory
   • dual n-back only trains memory
   • visual & auditoy stimuli
   • important for teachers to nurture

4. RTF - relational Frame Theory

   • relational responding
     • A1 - B1 - C1
     • foundation of language
   • equivalence - a life skill
   • Roche, Cassidy & Stewart 2013

5. MET = multiply exemplar training

   • can raise IQ