PSYC 3490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Verbal Memory, Inductive Reasoning
15 Dec 2013
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Intelligence involves more than just a particular fixed set of characteristics. Study that compiled list of behaviours: distinctly characteristic of exceptionally intelligent, academically intelligent, everyday intelligent, or unintelligent people. The two groups agreed that intelligence consisted of three major clusters of related abilities: Problem solving: consists of behaviours such as reasoning logically, identifying connections between ideas, seeing all aspects of a problem, and making good decisions. Verbal ability: includes such things as speaking, articulately, reading with high comprehension, and having a good vocabulary. Social competence: includes behaviours such as accepting others for who they are, admitting mistakes, displaying interest in the world at large, and being on time for appointments. Behaviours such as motivation, intellectual effort, and reading were said to be important indicators of intelligence for people of all ages, but other behaviours were specific to particular points in the life span. According to sternberg, foolishness is the result when knowledge does not lead to wisdom.
