1. ALL THIS TALK ABOUT INTELLIGENCE…
…but we really haven’t defined it yet, so here goes: Intelligence is the mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

2. CAN WE NEUROLOGICALLY MEASURE INTELLIGENCE?
MRI scans have revealed an approximate .35 correlation between IQ and brain size/volume → recent studies have indicated associations between intelligence and the size and activity of specific areas of the brain, especially within the frontal and parietal lobes

3. * Einstein’s brain was 15% larger than average in the lower region of the parietal lobe, which is associated with processing mathematical and spatial information

4. CAN WE NEUROLOGICALLY MEASURE INTELLIGENCE?
Other studies suggest having both ample gray matter (neural cell bodies related to information-processing capacity) AND ample white matter (axons related to the speed of neural communication) creates intelligence → efficiency is key: brain scans show those with higher IQs use less energy to solve problems

5. CAN WE NEUROLOGICALLY MEASURE INTELLIGENCE?
→ Finally, longitudinal studies have shown that those with higher measured IQs lead healthier, longer lives

6. MODERN EXPANSIONS OF THE IDEA OF INTELLIGENCE
Cognitive psychologist Robert Sternberg focused not so much on measuring intelligence, but on how we use it → Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence expands it to include analytical (school), practical (everyday life), and creative (inventiveness)

7. STERNBERG’S COMPONENTS OF CREATIVITY
1. Expertise → follow your passion, work hard 2. Imagination → let your mind roam freely 3. Adventure → fear not risk or ambiguity 4. Motivation → do it for the right reasons 5. Environment → birds of a feather…

8. MODERN EXPANSIONS OF THE IDEA OF INTELLIGENCE
Attempts to zero in on the creative process have suggested the primary role of divergent thinking: that which expands the # of possible problem solutions (as opposed to convergent: narrowing the # of solutions down) → one noteworthy correlation related to creativity is with forms of mental illness

10. MODERN EXPANSIONS OF THE IDEA OF INTELLIGENCE
Howard Gardner goes beyond Sternberg and suggests that we have eight separate, autonomous intelligences, → Gardner is against traditional IQ tests sole focus on verbal and mathematical skills → critics of Gardner’s multiple intelligences say it makes the idea of intelligence virtually meaningless