Vocabulary
Theorists
Implementing These Theorists
What Makes Intelligence?
Miscellaneous
100
The valuable process of generating novel and worthwhile solutions to goals, needs and problems
What is creativity?
100
Cattell proposed children differ in __________ ________________, the ability to acquire knowledge quickly and adapt to new situations effectively.
What is fluid intelligence?
100
Explain Spearman’s g
What is the general factor in intelligence that influences performance in a wide variety of tasks and domains?
100
What does it mean to say that abilities are used flexibly to meet a person’s goals in particular situations?
What is adaptive?
100
The ability to apply past knowledge and experiences flexibly and in a culturally appropriate manner while accomplishing challenging new tasks
What is intelligence?
200
When one or more of a tests items either offend or unfairly penalize people of a particular ethic background, gender, or socioeconomic status, to the point that the validity of test results is undermined.
What is cultural bias?
200
From this theorist’s perspective, children’s performance on any given task depends both on how generally bright they are and on any specific skills that the task involves
Who is Spearman?
200
According to Gardner, in the classroom it is important to do this in order to increase the chances that the special talents of every child will be exercised at one time or another
What is soliciting a range of intellectual abilities
200
A test developed by Binet that measured general knowledge, vocabulary , perception memory, and abstract thought
What is intelligence test?
200
he ability to perceive, understand, and regulate affective feelings
What is emotional intelligence?
300
A phenomenon where children actively seek out environmental conditions that match their inherited abilities
What is niche-picking?
300
This theorist believed that the traditional definitions of intelligence are too narrow. Rather he believes that people have eight distinctly different abilities, known as multiple intelligences
Who is Gardner?
300
George is athletic, can play the piano, and a social butterfly. However in mathematics he averages about a “C”. Is he intelligent? What evidence proves this?
What is yes, he is intelligent due to his unique abilities and the theory of multiple intelligences?
300
The idea that intelligent behavior depends on physical, social, and cultural support
What is distributed intelligence?
300
Is creativity the same as intelligence?
What is No, a person uses familiar intellectual processes, however being original is not being creative.
400
The ability to perceive, understand, and regulate affective feelings
What is emotional intelligence?
400
Sternberg believes that people may be more or less intelligent in three sets of abilities: _____________ intelligence, ________________ intelligence, and ___________ intelligence
What is analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence?
400
Cattell argues that this type of intelligence is the result of inherited biological factors
What is fluid intelligence?
400
People who are able to learn new information more quickly are able to do this due to their _________
What is capacity for learning?
400
What does Gardner argue must seriously be considered in accounts of human abilities?
What are studies other than traditional test scores
500
Approach that focuses on assessing children’s learning ability to learn in new situations, usually with adult assistance?
What is dynamic assessment?
500
In Sternberg’s theory what three factors must play a role in addition to the three types of intelligence?
What is environmental context, prior experience, and cognitive processes?
500
In the classroom is it important for teachers to vary their instructional method? If so, who would argue this?
What is yes, it is important because it is important for children to have choices in how they demonstrate their knowledge. Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence argues this.
500
Intelligence is ________, meaning that it is exhibited differently in different societies
What is culture specific?
500
What are the contrasting theories of intelligence?
What are nature and nurture, universality and diversity, and qualitative and quantitative change
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