Unit 5 Flashcards
ability to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively
with the environment.
Intelligence
can affect his behavioral responses, his manner of
adjustment and even his state of mental well-being.
Intelligence level of an Individual
able to learn from interaction and experiences. He is able to solve problems effectively and is
able to live harmoniously with the society.
Intelligent person
Theories of Intelligence
- Spearman’s Two-Factor Theory (Charles Spearman)
- Thurstone’s Primary Mental Abilities
- J.P. Guilford Analysis
- Cattell and Horn’s Concepts of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence
- Sternberg’s Information Processing Approach
- Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory
- Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
was believed to be an inherited
intellectual capacity that influences all-around performance.
G Factor (General Intelligence)
which were thought to account the differences
between scores on different tasks.
S Factor (Specific Abilities)
the ability to think of words rapidly
Word Fluency
ability to understand and define words.
Verbal Comprehension
ability to find rules and conventions to justify and solve
issues.
Reasoning
ability to recall and associate previous learned items
Memory
ability to detect similarities and differences between
designs and objects.
Perceptual Speed
ability to draw a design from memory to recognize a figure whose
position in the space has been distorted.
Space
ability to deal with numbers speedily and accurately either
theoretically or practically
Number
the factors separate factors are the result of the
interaction of operation (the ways one think), contents (what one thinks about) and
products (results of the application of an operation to a certain content, or our kind of
thinking towards a certain subject).
J. P. Guilford Analysis
employed when you figure out the relationships between
two varying concepts, to abstract and reason out.
Fluid Intelligence
ability to use an accumulated body of general information in solving problems and making judgements
Crystallized intelligence
This theory has identified a series of steps on what to do from time to time
Sternberg’s Information Processing Approach (Robert Sternberg)
trying to identify some important facts and to retrieve from one long
term memory whatever available information are important.
Encoding
drawing relationship between the pieces of facts and information.
Inferring
finding the relationship between the past situation and a present one.
Mapping
applies the relationship between one situation with the others.
Application
justify or providing some supporting evidences to your answer.
Justification
identifying the best solution or answer which depends on accurate
thinking.
Response
views intelligence as the capacity to solve the problems or to fashion
products that are valued in one or more cultural setting.
Gardner (Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory)
