Life calling: Chapter 8 Flashcards
ongoing process that is constantly making progress in a positive manner
Ever expanding
observing and learning about something for the first time in one’s experience
Discovery
perceive the meaning of something learned; grasp the idea of its significance; comprehend
Understand
to make use of as relevant and important to a situation or action
Apply
capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity
Intelligence
the power to discern and judge properly what is true or right or of moral value
Wisdom
the power to discern and judge properly what is true or right or of moral value
Wisdom
as the capacity in our lives that enables us to acquire knowledge and develop an ever-expanding understanding of this knowledge in a manner that produces wisdom.
intellectual strengths domain
Ten of the more commonly recognized capacities are listed below:
- Verbal Capacity
- Quantitative Capacity
- Image capacity
- Auditory capacity
- Short-term capacity
- Long-term capacity
- Reasoning capacity
- Processing capacity
- Reaction capacity
- Informational capacity
the ability to read and write, remember, and think with words
Verbal capacity
the ability to recognize, manipulate, comprehend, remember and think with quantitative concepts and relationships represented by numerical symbols.
Quantitative Capacity
the ability to perceive, analyze, synthesize, remember, and think with visual patterns.
Image Capacity
the ability to detect, analyze, synthesize, and discriminate auditory stimuli, especially those related to speech.
Auditory Capacity
the ability to store and recall information within a few minutes
Short-term memory
the ability to store information and to efficiently retrieve it later in the process of thinking
Long-Term Memory
The ability to form concepts and solve problems
Reasoning Capacity
the speed with which an individual can perform automatic cognitive tasks.
Processing Capacity
the immediacy with which an individual can react to stimuli or a task.
Reaction Capacity
the amount of specific information acquired and retained by an individual.
Informational capacity
What type of learning occurs primarily through looking at images, such as pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, and body language.
Visual learning
What type of learning occurs primarily through hearing words—both spoken and written.
Auditory learning
What type of learning occurs through hands-on doing and interacting.
Kinesthetics/Tactile
What are the five types of stimuli?
- Environmental
- Emotional
- Sociological
- Physical
- Psychological
What are the elements present in the environmental (stimuli)?
Sound
Light
Temperature
Design
What are the elements present in the Emotional (stimuli)?
Motivation
Persistence
Responsibility
Structure
What are the elements present in the Sociological (stimuli)?
Self, Pair, or Team
Feedback from Authority
Variety vs Routine
What are the elements present in the Physical (stimuli)?
Perceptual
Intake
Time
Mobility
What are the elements present in the Psychological (stimuli)?
Global/Analytical
Right/Left Hemisphere
Impulsive/Reflective
a philosophy professor at Wheaton College, refers to these as intellectual virtues.
Jay wood
a professor at the University of Missouri, considers these to be habits of the mind.
James Sire
Our definition of intellectual strengths identifies three categories of intellectual disciplines:
(1) those we use to discover knowledge;
(2) those we use to process the knowledge into an understanding of truth;
(3) those we use to apply the truth after we understand it.
In the Intellectual Disciplines graph what is at its center?
Humility
In the Intellectual Disciplines what three main points surround humility?
- Process
- Application
- Discovery
In the Intellectual Disciplines what is listed underneath discovery?
Curiosity
Teachable spirit
Persistence
A strong desire to learn more about something.
Curiosity
awillingness and eagerness to learn
Teachable Spirit
A firm and steadfast continual search for knowledge and truth
Persistence
In the intellectual disciplines graph what is listed underneath process?
Integrity
Critical Thinking
Patience
The quality or condition of interpreting information collected with honesty.
Integrity
The mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.
Critical Thinking
The capability of calmly awaiting an outcome or result even in the face of obstacles or challenges.
Patience
Process humility is a modest view of one’s own importance pertaining to the possession of understanding.
Humility
In the Intellectual Disciplines graph what is listed underneath applications?
Courage
Systematic thinking
Advancement
The quality of spirit that enables a person to face the unknown or new ideas without fear of implications or repercussions.
Courage
The mental process of formulating concepts into an organized set of interrelated ideas or principles that can be applied to life.
Systematic Thinking
The application of an understanding of knowledge to improve on what was already known, aka change
Advancement
Application humility is a modest view of one’s own importance pertaining to thrusting one’s own understanding on others.
Humility
Who is an example of “Strong Minds Are a Gift from God”?
Daniel and his three companions
The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
Proverbs 15:4
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin.
Proverbs 10:14
Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:12
Who is an example of “Learn the Difference Between Knowledge That Puffs Up or Builds Up”?
Paul
A sequential development plan for intellectual strengths.
Step 1: Fear the Lord
Step 2: Listen to instruction
Step 3: Seek God’s understanding
Step 4: Apply understanding to your life
What is our hope?
Possibilities of what can be done
What is our faith in?
God’s promise and everyone is gifted.
How do you figure out how you’re gifted?
Identify how you’re smart <application
