Intelligence

• Where does the word intelligence originate?

  Latin - intellectus

  • Perception or comprehension
• What are the 6 aspects of intelligence from a layperson view?

  Practical problem-solving ability

  Verbal ability

  Intellectual balance and integration

  Goal orientation and attainment

  Contextual intelligence

  Fluid thought
• Practical problem-solving ability

  Set attainable goals and achieve them

  Distinguish between right and wrong
• Verbal ability

  Converse on any topic

  Good mastery of language and vocab
• Intellectual balance and integration

  Ability to recognise similarities and differences

  See how ideas connect or are distinct
• Goal orientation and attainment

  Seeks to obtain and use information for specific purposes

  Ability to be successful and achieve
• Contextual intelligence

  Uses past experiences/mistakes to learn

  Ability to understand and interpret the environment
• Fluid thought

  Quick thinkers

  Thorough grasp of mathematics
• Conceptions change cross cultures

  Western culture - emphasise speed of mental processing and being able to gather and assimilate info quickly

  Eastern culture - Social, historical and spiritual aspects
• How does intelligence change over the lifespan?

  6 months - Recognition, coordination, awareness and verbalisation

  2 years - Curiosity, ability to learn, verbal ability

  10 years - Problem solving, reasoning, creativity

  Adults - Reasoning, problem solving, verbal ability, creativity
• What aspects of intelligence are important over the lifespan?


  5-11 - Social variables important

  11-18 - Verbal fluency is important

  18+ - Knowledge, logic and maturity are important
• No real consensus on what intelligence is and what makes a person intelligent
• There are similarities and differences between the ideas of what intelligence is

  Similarities

  • Abstract thought
  • Problem solving
  • Adaptability
  • Mental processing
• There are similarities and differences between the ideas of what intelligence is

  Differences come from how different people understand intelligence

  • Whether intelligence is considered as single or multifaceted
  • Whether it is accumulated knowledge or speed of processing
• What does the entity theory suggest?

  Intelligence is fixed

  • Unable to do anything about failure
• What does the incremental theory suggest?

  Intelligence can change over time

  • Change and adapt to failure