COGNI MOD 10

• Intelligence


  The capacity to learn from experience, using metacognitive processes to enhance learning and the ability to adapt to the surrounding environment
• Implicit theory of intelligence

  Applied in social situations and recognize that intelligence has different meanings in different contexts
• Emotional intelligence (EQ)


  Ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion in the self and others
• Cultural intelligence


  Used to describe a person's ability to adapt to a variety of challenges in diverse cultures
• Francis Galton


  • Intelligence as a function of psychophysical abilities
  • Psychophysical tests to measure a broad range of psychophysical skills and sensitivities such as pitch sensitivity, physical strength, etc.
• Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon


  • Distinguish normal learners from learners with mental retardation
  • Intelligence as a function of the ability to learn within an academic setting
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ)


  A ratio of Mental Age (MA)/ Chronological Age (CA) x 100
• Lewis Terman


  • Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
• David Wechsler

  • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
  • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
  • Wechsler Pre-school and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
  • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- Revised as a Neurological Instrument (WAIS-RN)
• Charles Spearman


  • General Factor "g": pervades performance on all tests of mental ability; the result of "mental energy"
  • Specific Factor "s": involved in performance on only a single type of mental ability test
• Primary Mental Abilities

  • Verbal Comprehension
  • Verbal Fluency
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Spatial Visualization
  • Numbers
  • Memory
  • Perceptual Speed
• Fluid ability


  Speed and accuracy of abstract reasoning
• Crystallized ability


  Accumulated knowledge and vocabulary
• Choice reaction time


  The time it takes to select one answer from among several possibilities
• Lexical-access speed and speed of simultaneous processing


  The speed with which we can retrieve information about words stored in long-term memory
• People with low verbal ability


  Take longer to gain access to lexical information than do those with high verbal ability
• Intelligence


  Is also related to the person's ability to divide their attention
• Brain size or volume


  • Modest but significant statistical relationship between brain size and intelligence
  • Greater brain size may cause greater intelligence, greater intelligence may cause greater brain size
• Neural efficiency


  • Brain metabolism of glucose during mental activities
  • Higher intelligence correlates with low levels of glucose metabolism during problem-solving tasks
• Contextualism


  • Intelligence must be understood in its real-world context
  • Intelligence as something that a culture creates to define the nature of adaptive performance in that culture
• Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences

  • Linguistic Intelligence
  • Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
  • Spatial Intelligence
  • Musical Intelligence
  • Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
  • Interpersonal Intelligence
  • Intrapersonal Intelligence
  • Naturalistic Intelligence
• Sternberg's Triarchic Theory

  • Analytical Thinking
  • Experiential/Creative Thinking
  • Practical Thinking