FRHD 2270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Psychological Testing, Mental Rotation, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
23 Nov 2017
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Memory skills: take center stage in information processing approaches. Improves rapidly during middle childhood: children grow due to 2 factors. Growing factual knowledge allows them to organize information more completely and they remember better. Gardner" theory of multiple intelligence : howard gardne(cid:396)"s theory of multiple intelligences, linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic. Linguistic, logical-mathematical, and spatial included in psychometric theories of intelligence. Includes 2 other subtheories: experiential subtheory the idea that intelligence is revealed in both novel and familiar tasks. Novel tasks intelligence is associated with the ability to apply existing knowledge to a new situation. Binet and the development of intelligence testing: mental age the difficulty level of problems that children could correctly solve at various ages, children with higher measured ability did better in school than children with lower measured ability. Intelligence quotient (iq) the mathematical ratio of mental age to chronological age. Initially, girls excel in math computation but later boys excel in math problem solving.
