hot intelligences Flashcards
what are hot intelligences?
alternative theories that focus on being ‘streetwise’ rather than booksmart
what fostered the notion of hot intelligences
there were so many examples of people who had performed poorly in school that ended up being very successful in life - cognitive ability isnt everything
what are the 4 types of hot intelligences? - include names of resarchers
- social intelligence (thorndike, 1920)
- multiple intelligences (gardner, 1999)
- practical intelligence (sternberg, 1985)
- emotional intelligence (salovey, mayer, goleman, 1990)
what were the 2 original domains of social intelligence?
- ability to manage others
- act wisely in relationships
what was thorndike the first to do
think of something else that was not a traditional part of intelligence
why is social intelligence important?
- it tells us something more about intelligence as academic and cognitive abilities are not the perfect predictors of performance
- helps us to understand social disorders where cognitive skills failed to distinguish between healthy and mentally impaired individuals
what problems are there with social intelligence?
- how do we measure it? -
- it is very subjective and we are sometimes not insightful about ourselves and may not answer truthfully.
- early measures of SI correlated with academic intelligence.
“social intelligence eludes from formal standardized conditions of the testing laboratory” - who?
Thorndike (1920)
ford and tisak (1983) did what?
designed and tested a psychometrically coherent social intelligence scale on a sample of 600 participants
what 5 dimensions of social intelligence did ford and tisak (1983) develop from their testing?
- interest and concern for other people
- social performance skills
- empathic ability
- emotional expressiveness and sensitivity to others emotional expression
- social anxiety and lack of social self-efficacy
were ford and tisak’s dimensions related to cognitive abilities?
no.
what is there dispute over in testing of SI?
the number of dimensions:
sternberg - 2
steinberg - 7
who developed the theory of multiple intelligence’s?
Gardner (1983, 1999).
what are gardners views?
- supports thurstones idea that intelligence comes in multiple forms
- brain damage could dimish one type of ability but not others
- 8 different intelligences
what are the criticisms of gardners multiple intelligences?
- its hard to measure things like musical intelligence
- he had no evidence to support his notion of multiple independant intelligences
- the list of intelligences is probably not representative of the real number of abilities
what did De Visser (2006) find from testing multiple intelligences?
that many of the ‘independant’ factors were positively correlated with each other eg spatial ability correlated with local/mathematical ability
what was wrong with the way that gardner tested his theory?
he measured preferences rather than skills eg questions like - i prefer …
this was unsophisticated and unreliable
what is the notion behind practical intelligence (sternberg)
- agrees with the need for multiple intelligence but suggests 3 rather than 8
- no one is good at everything or nothing so there is no point in talking about g.
what are the 3 subcomponents of practical intelligence?
- componential
- experiential
- contextual
emotional intelligence is routed in the works of…
Thorndike
what are criticisms of practical intelligence?
relationships between subtheories are not specified which made it difficult to measure the model
who were the main researchers of emotional intelligence?
Salovey and Mayer (1990)
Goleman (1995)
what did goleman (1995) think about emotional intelligence?
It is not about your IQ but rather emotional intelligence - it may be the best predictor of success in life. defines what it means to be smart
how do salovey and mayer (1990) define emotional intellince?
the ability to monitor own and others feelings , discriminate among feelings and use guided thinking.
