Intelligence and Creativity (8) Flashcards

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Psychometric approach?

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Intelligence as a trait or set of traits that characterises some people to a greater extent that others.

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Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence?

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Cattell and Horn.
Fluid: ability to use your mind actively to solve new problems without applying prior knowledge (reasoning, seeing relationships among stimuli, drawing inferences).
Crystallised: the use of knowledge acquired through schooling and other life experiences.

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Three components of Sternberg’s successful intelligence theory?

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  1. Practical intelligence: abilities to solve everyday life problems.
  2. Creative intelligence: demonstrated in response to novel experiences, requires active and conscious info processing.
  3. Analytical intelligence: focus on the info processing skills that produce answers to questions in traditional intelligence tests.
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Sternberg’s successful intelligence?

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  • establish and achieve reasonable goals consistent with skills and circumstances
  • optimising strengths and minimising weaknesses
  • adapting o the environments through selecting a good one and making modifications to oneself or to the environment to increase the fit
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Sternberg’s investment theory of creativity?

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Confluence of:
- Trio of abilities
- Enough knowledge of a field to know what might be missing
- Mentally toying with ideas
- Personality style open to risk and comfortable outside the norm
- Motivation to stay focused and not give up in front of obstacles
- Environment that supports and rewards creative output

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Bayley scales of infant and toddler development?

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Three parts:
1. cognitive scale
2. language scale
3. motor scale

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Flynn effect?

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Average IQ scores have increase by about 3 points per decade.

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Cumulative deficit hypothesis?

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To describe how impoverished environments inhibit intellectual growth and these negative effects accumulate over time
→ BUT NEUROPLASTICITY

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Wheat does HOME stand for?

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Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (inventory).

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Dickens-Flynn Model?

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Those with an advantage for a trait become matched with superior environments for that trait

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