Intelligence

Intelligence

1. Deary

   • Human intelligence differences
     • 1: Mental ability tests fractioned putatively (psychometric approach)
     • 2: Procedures from experimental psych have been used - reaction time (manipulation of stimulus i response relationship include of exclude element of mental processing
     • 3: Lower level? procedures used sensory information examined to reveal processing elements - psychophysical approach
     • it measure - wm and general control processes
     • Cognitive experimental approaches: higher psychometric intelligence = faster + less variable reaction times
     • Individual differences psychologists adopted rt's c/p find sig assoc between mental test scores and lower level task peremeters
     • Mental elemants
       • Mental elemants
       • inferring
       • mapping
       • application

2. Emotional Intelligence

3. What is Intelligence?

   • it is imposible to clearly define intelligence, but one can say that it could be the intellectual ability with two main aspects: learning from experience and adapting to the environment (Sternberg)

4. Cognitive Intelligence

5. Theories of intelligence

   • Spearman
     • general factor (g) and specific factors (s)
   • Thurstone
   • Cattell
     • 3-layer hierarchical model CHC - Layer 3 is g, layer 2 is broad abilitis (stm), layer 1 is narrow abilities (wtm)
   • Sternberg
     • STAT: widely used research tool
     • triarchic theory has 3 elements. internal world; experience; external world. Intelligence cannot be fully assessed in any one environment and must also relate to culture"
       • children can benefit from triarchic learning?