1. What is Intelligence? Intelligence
ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

2. Assessing Intelligence
Intelligence Tests
a method of assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them to those of others, using numerical scores

3. Assessing Intelligence
IQ Tests
Aptitude Test
a test designed to predict a person’s future performance
Achievement Test
a test designed to assess what a person has learned

4. Are There Multiple Intelligences?
Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Verbal
Mathematical
Spatial
Bodily-kinesthetic
Musical
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalistic

5. Are There Multiple Intelligences?
Sternburg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
Componential Intelligence: the information processing (analytical) aspect of intelligence.
Experiential Intelligence: the aspect of intelligence that includes insight and creativity
Contextual Intelligence: the practical side of intelligence or “street smarts”

6. Are There Multiple Intelligences?
Savant Intelligence
Social Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
Practical Intelligence

7. Are There Multiple Intelligences?
Creativity
the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
expertise
imaginative thinking skills
divergent thinking
convergent thinking
venturesome personality
intrinsic motivation
creative environment

8. Components of Intelligence
Ability to learn and profit from experience
Ability to think and reason abstractly
Ability to adapt to a changing world
Ability to motivate oneself to accomplish the tasks one needs to do

9. Genetic Influences Heritability
the proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes (percentage attributed to heredity)

10. Environmental Influences
Can include
Nutrition
Toxic substances
Quality of stimulation
Emotional Climate at Home
Type of feedback elicited by behavior