Intelligence

Intelligence

1. Intelligence

   • general ability to understand and use information
   • ability to think logically
   • able to form mental representations of the world and draw meaning from them
   • able to adapt to new situations

2. general intelligence

   • g & s Spearman (1940)
   • gc &gf Catell (1971)

3. Howard Gardner (1993)

   • I Like LIMBS
     • Intrapersonal
     • Linguistic
     • Logical
     • Interpersonal
     • Musical
     • Bodily
     • Spatial

4. Intelligence tests

   • performance on intellectual task correlates with performance on other tasks

5. IQ

   • Index of intelligence derived from scoring intelligence tests
   • typical divided into:
     • Performance
     • Verbal

6. Factors affecting intelligence and IQ

   • short term extraneous test influences
     • familiarity
     • motivation
     • distraction
     • sensory problems
     • cultural issues
   • Internal
     • emotional state
     • mental of physical illness
   • Heritability
     • proportion of variance is down to heritability
   • environmental influences
     • childhood nutrition
     • environmental toxins
     • in-utero drug exposure
     • childhood environment
     • neurological injury
     • genetic disorder