PSYCHOLOGY UNIT 2 CHAPTER 11- Intelligence Flashcards
❓❓❓What’s is Binet’s definition of intelligence?
- a general ability with specific, but related, ‘mental functions’ such as reasoning, memory, vocabulary, length and quality of attention, and perceptual judgement
❓❓❓What is the widely accepted definition of intelligence?
- intelligence involves the ability to learn from experience, to acquire knowledge, to reason and to problem solve, to deal with people and objects and to adapt effectively to the environment
☀️☀️☀️BINET
- intelligence is age related (5 year olds posses intelligence but should be more intelligent than 3 and 4 year olds but less intelligent than 6 and 7 year olds)
- first intelligence test was published in 1905 for children 3-11
- the test starts off easy and becomes increasingly difficult
- if 65%-75% of children that age get answer the questions right! it is considered to be a fair test
- test stops when it is clear that the child cannot answer any more questions
- Binet gives child a mental age (an age given based on the number of right answers)
❓❓❓What is Wechsler’s definition of intelligence?
-the global and aggregate capacity to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effective teeth the environemnt
❓❓❓Name and describe Wechsler’s four conditions for intelligence
AWARENESS
-intelligent behaviour is intentional
GOAL DIRECTED
-intelligent behaviour has a purpose
RATIONAL
-intelligent behaviour is appropriate for completing a particular goal
WORTHWHILE
-intelligent behaviour is valued by others
☀️☀️☀️WECHSLER
- thought views on intelligence were narrow because they only focused on performance at school
- both verbal and performance abilities are important components of intelligence
SOCIO CULTURAL INFLUENCE
-what is regarded as intelligent behaviour can vary between societies, within societies and across time
❓❓❓Define Verbal Abilities and Performance Abilities (Wechsler)
- language dependent abilities
- abilities less dependent on language
❓❓❓Name Gardner’s 8 Multiple Intelligences
- Linguistic
- intrapersonal
- musical
- spatial
- bodily-kinesthetic
- logical-mathematical
- interpersonal
- naturalistic
❓❓❓Describe Linguistic Intelligence (Gardner)
-use of language and words
❓❓❓Describe Intrapersonal Intelligence (Gardner)
-ability to understand one’s own feelings and to draw on them to guide their behaviour in an appropriate way
❓❓❓Describe Musical Intelligence (Gardner)
-musical competence e.g. Understanding pitch rhythm, tone, pattern etc
❓❓❓Describe Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (Gardner)
-using ones body in a skilled way
❓❓❓Describe Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (Gardner)
-ordering and recording numbers of objects to measure their quantity using a sequence of logic, steps to solve a problem
❓❓❓Describe Interpersonal Intelligence (Gardner)
-ability to read other people’s moods, motivations, intentions and other internal stages and effectively act upon this knowledge
❓❓❓Describe Naturalistic Intelligence (Gardner)
-ability to recognise and categorise natural objects
❓❓❓Describe Spatial Intelligence (Gardner)
-mentally forming and using accurate visual images of real objects and events, mentally rotating objects in 3-D space
☀️☀️☀️GARDNER
BACKGROUND TO THE THEORY
- sometimes an intelligence van be ‘affected’ depending on which part of the brain is damaged e.g. Savant syndrome
- a person can be strong In one intelligence and weak in another
SOCIO-CULTURAL INFLUENCE
- different societies view different things as intelligent e.g. Aboriginals value animals tracking rather than crosswords
- different time periods revolve around different things
❓❓❓What is Solovey and Mayer’s definition of emotional intelligence?
-ability to recognise the meanings if emotions and their relationships and to reason and problem solve on the basics of emotions