SP 3: Intelligence and Creative Thinking

Question 1

dynamic testing

Answer 1

form of testing in which feedback and instruction have been integrated into the testing process

Question 2

Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

Answer 2

difference between solving a problem independently and solving the problem with help from others
‘ability to learn’/’potential for learning’

Question 3

scaffolding

Answer 3

metaphor to describe ‘a process that enables a child to solve a problem, carry out a task etc. which would be beyond his unassisted effort’
- gradual development from external to internal regulation

Question 4

Feuerstein: mediated learning

Answer 4

like scaffolding

Question 5

model of dynamic test

Answer 5

1) pretest
- ‘static’
- independent
2) intervention
- ‘dynamic’
- help from mediator
- instructional needs
3) posttest
- ‘dynamic’
- independent
- progression and task approach

Question 6

what is measured during dynamic test?

Answer 6

1) number of help steps needed
2) progress (pretest-posttest)
3) transfer (of newly acquired info/skills, to another domain)

Question 7

learning potential measures

Answer 7

number of steps that the help that the child needed during the intervention
- performance after intervention

Question 8

differences in learning potential

Answer 8

1) much help, minimal progress
2) minimal help, minimal progress
3) minimal help, much progress
4) much help, much progress

Question 9

CHC-model (Cattell-Horn-Carroll)

Answer 9

CHC-model distinguishes between broad cognitive skills (working memory, cognitive processing speed and verbal understanding) and specific skills (specific tasks)
- combination of Spearman’s g-factor and Thurstone’s primary mental abilities

Question 10

CHC-model 5 things

Answer 10

1) crystallized intelligence
2) fluid intelligence
3) visual processing
4) STM
5) processing speed

Question 11

WISC-V indexes

Answer 11

1) verbal comprehension
2) visuo-spatial
3) fluid reasoning
4) working memory
5) processing speed

Question 12

Flynn-effect

Answer 12

IQ average keeps increasing over generations
- better education and cognitive stimulation

Question 13

creative reasoning

Answer 13

1) divergent thinking
2) convergent thinking

Question 14

divergent thinking

Answer 14

thinks of all possible ways to research a solution (exploratory)

Question 15

convergent thinking

Answer 15

thinks for a final solution

Question 16

creative thinking: 2 contents

Answer 16

1) must be something new
2) must be something applicable

Question 17

measuring creative thinking

Answer 17

• alternative uses task tests
  fluency: number or responses

Question 18

creativity and brain

Answer 18

most important: frontal cortex

Question 19

creativity: children, adolescents and adults

Answer 19

• adolescents better with divergent thinking (spacial insight, original ideas)
• adults better at convergent thinking (more feasable ideas, more life experience, more expanded memory)