Types of Intelligence
Ability to accurately assess, evaluate and regulate feelings
What is emotional intelligence?
Advocates for multiple intelligences including 8 ways that one can be smart
Who is Howard Gardner?
Skills involving music
What is musical intelligence?
Type of intelligence related to knowing one's self
What is intrapersonal intelligence? (Self Smart)
Gardner believed discussing IQ as standard deviations from average was the best way to understand intelligence
What is False? (he doesn't like traditional IQ tests)
Intelligence related to overall success in living, i.e., common sense
What is practical intelligence?
Frenchmen who developed one of the first tests of intelligence based on chronological age
Who was Alfred Binet?
Skilled in reason and calculations
What is logical-mathematical intelligence? Math Smart
Type of intelligence associated with a keen sense of body awareness often seen in dancers and professional athletes
What is bodily-kinesthetic intelligence? (Body Smart)
Intellectually gifted individuals represent a small percentage of the population and have IQ scores greater than 130
What is True?
Accumulation of information, knowledge and skills acquired through education and experience
What is crystallized intelligence?
Developed the triarchic theory of intelligence
Who is Robert Sternberg?
Skilled in use of words/language
What is linguistic intelligence? Word Smart
Consistently get the same measure on repeated administrations of a test
What is reliability?
Fluid intelligence is characterized as acquired knowledge and the ability to retrieve it
What is false (this describes crystallized intelligence)
Navigating your way home through an unfamiliar route due to road construction would draw upon this type of intelligence
What is fluid intelligence?
Developed most common contemporary assessment of intelligence
Who is David Wechsler?
Skills understanding and interacting with other people such as those in sales
What is interpersonal intelligence? (People smart)
Measuring what you intend to measure
What is validity?
Intelligence is determined solely by genetics
What is false (it's both genes and the environment)
Tasks that require you to compare, contrast, or evaluate are using this component of the triarchic theory of intelligence
What is analytical intelligence?
Viewed intelligence as a unitary factor of mental ability called a “g” factor
Who was Charles Spearman?
Skills involving mental rotation and thinking in terms of physical space often seen in artists and architects
What is spatial intelligence? (Art Smart)
Standards that enables one to compare an individual’s performance to a group
What are norms?
Traumatic brain injury is the most common cause of intellectual disabilities
What is false (it's fetal alcohol syndrome)