1. What does it mean to be Intelligent?
Intelligence
What does it mean to be Intelligent?

2. What is Intelligence
Myers says, “ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.”
Differs from culture to culture
Is it measurable?

3. General Ability vs. Multiple Intelligences
General Intelligence (g-factor)
Charles Spearman
People who score high on one intelligence type often score high on other intelligences
May have exceptional talents but overall (g) intelligence seems to play a role in all
Satoshi Kanazawa (2004)
Solving novel problems in academic settings
Multiple Intelligences
LL Thurstone
Primary mental abilities
Word fluency, verbal comprehension, spatial ability, perceptual speed, numerical ability, inductive reasoning, & memory
Similar to athletic ability

4. Contemporary Intelligence Theories
Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner (1983, 1999)
Eight intelligences:
Linguistic, logic-math, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalist
Uses savant syndrome as evidence of “aspect” intelligences
Are they intelligences or talents?
Sternberg (1985, 1999, 2003)
Triarchic theory: Analytic (logic/academic), creative (adaptive), & practical (mult. soln. probs.)

5. Emotional Intelligence
Seymour Epstein & Petra Meier (1989)
Social intelligence: being successful in social settings
Peter Salovery & John Mayer
Emotional intelligence: recognize, comprehend, manage, & use emotions
Often successful in career, marriage, & parenting situations
Does this stretch “intelligence” too far?

6. Intelligence & Creativity
5 components of Creativity:
Expertise: working knowledge base
Imaginative thinking: see things in creative ways
Venturesome personality: persistence despite failure
Intrinsic motivation: a PERSONAL desire to be successful
Creative Environment: need to work with others and bounce ideas off them, free of evaluation