Midterms Flashcards
sensitivity to spoken and written language
Linguistic Intelligence
ability to learn languages, and the capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals
Linguistic Intelligence
effectively use language to express oneself rhetorically or poetically
Linguistic Intelligence
language as a means to remember information.
Linguistic Intelligence
People with high Linguistic Intelligence
Writers, poets, lawyers and speakers
analyze problems logically, carry out mathematical operations, to detect patterns, reason deductively and think logically and investigate issues scientifically.
Logical-mathematical intelligence
scientific and mathematical thinking.
Logical-mathematical intelligence
performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns
Musical intelligence
encompasses the capacity to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, and rhythms.
Musical intelligence
potential of using one’s whole body or parts of the body to solve problems
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements.
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
athletes and people involved in the performing arts.
recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas
Spatial intelligence
to represent the spatial world internally in your mind – the way a sailor or airplane pilot navigates the large _________world,
Spatial intelligence
the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed_______world.
Spatial intelligence
to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people.
Interpersonal intelligence
allows people to work effectively with others.
Interpersonal intelligence
Interpersonal intelligence
Educators, salespeople, religious and political leaders and counselors
capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one’s feelings, fears and motivations
Intrapersonal intelligence
having an effective working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our lives
Intrapersonal intelligence
Intrapersonal intelligence
They tend to know what they can’t do. And they tend to know where to go if they need help
deals with sensing patterns in and making connections to elements in nature.
Naturalist Intelligence
interested in other species, or in the environment and the earth.
Naturalist Intelligence
possessing nature smarts are keenly aware of their surroundings and changes in their environment, even if these changes are at minute or subtle levels
> highly developed levels of ______________
sensory perceptionNaturalist Intelligence
heightened senses may help them notice similarities, differences and changes in their surroundings more rapidly than others.
Naturalist Intelligence
able to categorize or catalogue things easily too.
Naturalist Intelligence
may notice things others might not be aware of
Naturalist Intelligence
exhibit the proclivity to pose (and ponder) questions about life, death, and ultimate realities.
Existential Intelligence
__________or the retention of information over time that involves 3 processes:
1.
2.
3.
Memory
- Encoding - putting into memory
- Storage – maintaining in memory
- Retrieval recovering from memory
Memory can either be
SHORT-TERM or LONG-TERM:
Storage of material for a matter of seconds
SHORT TERM MEMORY
needs ATTENTION
• Memory problems are lapses in attention
• Coding: _____________ or __________
SHORT TERM MEMORY
Encoding
Acoustic (sound) or Visual (sight)
___________ memory, what process?
Limited capacity:__ items (7 + 2)
• Hermann E__________ “the magic number 7”
• CHUNKING
> Example:
Short term!! Encoding > 7 > Hermann Ebbinghaus > an organizational strategy that involves grouping information into higher order units that can be remembered as single units.
> 124556787 to 124-556-787
___________ memory, what process?
decay with time or displaced by new items; slows down when number or items increases
Short term!!
Retrieval
• FORGETTING
Continuing storage of information
LONG TERM MEMORY
~ poor visual acuity, nearsighted
~ attracted to curved lines, high contrast, interesting edges, movement, complexity
CHILD DEVELOPMENT (0-12 y.o.)
Physical Development
Vision
~ head-turning; distinguishing sounds, even human voice
CHILD DEVELOPMENT (0-12 y.o.)
Physical Development
Hearing
~ can discriminate taste shortly after birth ( sweet salty, sour, bitter)
~ can discriminate odor
CHILD DEVELOPMENT (0-12 y.o.)
Physical Development
Taste and Smell
growth rate begins to slow
- development of fine and gross motor skills
Early Childhood (4-6 years old)
- motor developments are smoother, more coordinated
B. Cognitive
Middle and Late Childhood (7-12 years old)
By JEAN PIAGET
_________VS ______________ or _____+____________?
By JEAN PIAGET
Nature vs. Nurture? Or Nature + Nurture?
CHILD
> attempt to understand a new object or event in terms of a pre-existing schema (idea)
ASSIMILATION
> an active participant, an inquiring scientist who conducts experiments on the world
CHILD
ACCOMODATION
modifying the schema and extending the “theory”
Children’s ability to think and reason progress through ________________
qualitatively distinct stages as they mature.
Understanding the world through our senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing)
SENSORIMOTOR STAGE (0-2 y.o.)
Language
- The child does not comprehend OPERATIONS and can not do mental manipulation yet.
PREOPERATIONAL STAGE (2-7 y.o.)