Foundations of Intelligence
This term describes your ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and adapt to new situations.
What is Intelligence?
This type of intelligence allows you to reason quickly and solve abstract problems, but it tends to decline with age.
What is fluid intelligence (Gf)?
He proposed the general intelligence factor known as g.
Who is Charles Spearman?
(Logical-Mathematical): Solve for x: 2x + 2 = 10.
What is 4?
This term describes passion and perseverance for long-term goals, even in the face of challenges.
What is grit?
Spearman proposed this “general factor” that underlies all mental abilities.
What is g (general intelligence)?
This type of intelligence grows as we gain knowledge and experience, like vocabulary and general facts.
What is crystallized intelligence (Gc)?
This psychologist identified seven primary mental abilities and was a critic of Spearman’s idea of g.
Who is L.L. Thurstone?
(Interpersonal): The definition of happiness.
What is the state of being happy?
(Intrapersonal): Recall a time you felt proud of yourself. What emotion were you experiencing, and why?
Acceptable answer: Shows recognition of personal achievement and emotion.
This statistical method identifies clusters of related mental abilities on a test.
What is factor analysis?
Sternberg proposed these three types of intelligence.
What is practical, analytical, and creative?
This theory combines general intelligence with specific abilities, bridged by fluid and crystallized intelligence.
What is the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory?
(Bodily-Kinesthetic): The action of cartwheeling.
What is ...(do a cartwheel)?
(Naturalistic): This equation shows how plants turn sunlight into energy:
___ + ___ → ___ + ___
Name the full balanced equation for photosynthesis.
What is 6CO₂ + 6H₂O → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂?
Name three of Gardner's multiple intelligences.
What is linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist?
Emotional intelligence involves the ability to do these 4 things effectively with emotions.
What is perceive, understand, manage, and use?
He is famous for proposing the theory of multiple intelligences.
Who is Howard Gardner?
(Musical): I will clap a rhythm. Name the song or repeat the rhythm exactly.
What is Happy Birthday?
(Visual-Spatial): The shape that this shape will make when you fold it mentally.
What is a cube?
Excelling in one primary mental ability usually meant you did well in others, providing evidence for this.
What is g factor?
Someone with limited overall mental ability who has an extraordinary skill in one area has this syndrome.
What is Savant Syndrome?
He developed the triarchic theory of intelligence, dividing it into analytical, creative, and practical types.
Who is Robert Sternberg?
(Linguistic): Spell the word that describes a sound written like it is heard, such as “buzz” or “clang.”
What is O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A?
Make Ms. Marks laugh.
Point will be earned if you make Ms. Marks laugh.