Creativity and Intelligence Flashcards
IQ
Intelligence Quotient, a standardized test that measures intelligence
Analytical intelligence
Book knowledge and academic skills, the ability to organize and understand information and get a good score on a test (Robert Sternberg)
Practical intelligence
Common sense, being able to apply academic knowledge to the real world, “street smarts” (Robert Sternberg)
Creative intelligence
Thinking outside the box, solving problems with unconventional solutions, generating a hypothesis from info that you don’t have (Robert Sternberg)
Fluid intelligence
Ability to see complex relationships and solve abstract problems (Ramon Cattell)
Crystalized intelligence
characterized by acquired knowledge and the ability to retrieve it (Ramon Cattell)
Dysgraphia
a learning disability in which is it difficult to write
Dyslexia
a learning disability in which it is difficult to reading and comprehension
Divergent Thinking
thinking outside the box
Convergent thinking
thinking in the conventional mode of thinking
Lexicon
the words and vocabulary in a language
Phoneme
basic sound units of a language
Morphemes
the smallest units of a language
Syntax
the way words are arranged in a sentence
Semantics
the process of deriving meaning from morphemes and words
