1. Intelligence
What qualities does someone have who is intelligent?

2. Intelligence Tests
Intelligence: ability to think rationally, act purposefully, respond to environment
Fluid reasoning: similar, impossible
Knowledge: how things work, vocab
Quantitative reasoning: #s, patterns
Visual-spatial processing: shapes
Working memory: order, last digits
IQ (intelligence quotient)
mental age / chronological age

3. Intelligence & Success
What attributes are related to success?
Intelligence, but also:
Motivation
Creativity

4. Where does intelligence come from?
Heredity (about 50%)
Genes for memory, brain structures, neuron communication, disorders
Environment
Prenatal: nutrition, drugs, stress, sounds
Postnatal: nutrition, interaction, practice, enriched environment, disease, toxins, encouragement/pressure
Adopted Twin Studies – who do we get intelligence from?
best predictor = person who raised you

5. Units of Thought Thinking: mental representation
attention, pattern recognition, memory, decision-making, intuition, knowledge
Images: picture representations
Ex. What you were wearing yesterday
Ex. (Kinesthetic) remembering dialing
Concepts: ideas that represent categories
ex. cup, chair, cat
Concept formation: classifying by rules
Ex. vegetable vs. fruit

6. Concepts conjunctive concepts: at least 2 features (this and that)
Ex. rollerskates
relational concepts: compared to others
Ex. sister
disjunctive concepts: at least one
Ex. a minority
Thinking in concepts takes no effort, is immediate, and becomes automatic as we age

7. Prototypes prototypes: most typical representation
Ex. muscle car
What kind of music is this?
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8. Activity
Create conceptual rules of classifying music into types & pick a prototype
Example: Bluegrass music
conjunctive concepts: 2+ features
Must have at least a banjo and guitar
relational concepts: compared to others
More “breakdowns” than country
disjunctive concepts: at least one
Uses a fiddle or mandolin or harmonica
prototypes: most typical representation
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9. Language Words and symbols used for thinking and communicating
context: situation
phonemes: sounds
morphemes: syllables
grammar: rules for meaning
syntax: order of words

10. Learning Language Nonverbal gestures Words
En route to language, deaf & hearing
Share objects, share info, requests, show emotion
Words
Sensitive period: time when learning is done without effort
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11. Discussion What is the difference between language and communication?
Video: Monkey talks
bricks

12. Problem Solving Solutions Mechanical: trial & error
Reach a banana
Understanding: nature of the problem
Hair colorist
Heuristics: limit possible solutions
Math – greatest common factor
Insight: mental reorganization; sudden realization
tube

13. Barriers to Problem Solving
emotional barriers: fear of mistakes
speaking up in a group
cultural barriers: values that inhibit creativity
culture which values harmony over innovation
learned barriers / functional fixedness: conventions, meanings, possibilities
exfoliator
perceptual barriers: habits, fixed approaches
approaching a relationship problem

14. Creative Thinking Creativity Fluency (#) Flexibility (types)
Originality (new)

15. Problems with Intuition
Intuition: quick, emotional response
When is intuition inaccurate?
Representativeness: fits our idea
accountant
Odds
OUR scratcher
Emotion
medicine
Framing
majority vs. 51%

16. Discussion
How should college admissions be granted? What kinds of intelligence should be emphasized?