BPH 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
11 Sep 2019
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Intelligence and creativity: theories of intelligence and creativity, psychometric, gardner. Sternberg: traditional iq tests: accuracy and utility. Intelligence: trait or a set of traits that characterizes some people to a greater extent than others; can be measured: goal: identify these traits precisely and to measure them, development of standardized tests of intelligence. Forerunner of the modern iq test: mental age (ma) Level of age-graded problems that the child is able to solve: binet"s test, designed to identify slow children for special education in schools. Iq= ma/ca x100 : ma= age they are based on smarts, ca= chronological age, the age they actually are, test norms. Fewer than 3% have scores of 130 or above: criterion of giftedness. Fewer than 3% have scores below 70: cutoff for intellectual disability, gardner"s theory of multiple intelligences. Iq tests often ignore other forms of intelligence. Savant syndrome: exceptional talent in one area, but poor in others.
