Intelligence

Intelligence

1. Four stages of creative thought

   • Preparation
   • Verification
   • Illumination
   • Incubation

2. Intelligence tests

   • Narrow domains of expertise
   • Culturally biased
   • "Book smart" vs. "street smart"
   • Improve with instruction
   • Subscales test specialized areas
   • High predictive validity
     • Test scores
     • Job preformance
   • Flynn effect
     • Risen 3 points per decade

3. Reliability

   • The consistency of a measure

4. Validity

   • The test measures what it's supposed to measure

5. Fluid intelligence

   • Ability to deal w/ novel problems

6. Crystallized intelligence

   • Acquired knowledge, including verbal knowledge & experience

7. Practical

   • Street smarts

8. Rationality

   • Capacity for critically assessing info as it’s gathered

9. Emotional

   • Ability to understand the emotions of one’s self & others
   • Ability to control one’s emotions

10. Gardener’s multiple intelligences

    • Logical-mathematical
    • Linguistic
    • Spatial
    • Musical
    • Bodily-kinesthetic
    • Interpersonal
    • Intrapersonal
    • Naturalistic