PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Basic Books, Human Brain
17 May 2016
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1. ARTICLE CITATION:
• Original Author(s): Gardner, H.
• Original Publication Date: 1983
• Original Title: Just How Are You Intelligent?
• Original Place of Publication: New York: Basic Books
2. QUESTIONS ADDRESSED IN ORIGINAL STUDY:
(List the 2 – 5 most important questions addressed in the original study)
• What causes each person to possess their own unique combination of various forms of
intellectual abilities?
• Is intelligence divided into several subcategories that make our abilities stronger in one end as
opposed to the other?
• What makes a person more knowledgeable in one field as opposed to the other?
3. FINDINGS OF ORIGINAL STUDY:
(List the 2 – 5 most important findings of the original study)
• Intelligence is composed of various mental abilities, each possessing in itself the characteristics
of complete “free standing” intelligence.
• Intelligence depends not only on the mental skills of a person, but their brain structure.
• Human brain is not only diverse in its abilities but also extremely specialized in its functioning.
• Different regions of the brain correspond with different learning/intelligence abilities. Damage of
certain sites, hinder a person’s ability to gain the utmost intelligence in the associated field.
4. EXTENSIONS OF ORIGINAL STUDY
(List the 2 – 5 most important advances made by subsequent research in this area)
• 8 signs that indicate intelligence: Potential isolation of the intelligence by brain damage, the
existence of savants, prodigies, and other exceptional individuals related to intelligence,
information processing operations, development history of intelligence, evidence that
intelligence evolves through time, ability to study intelligence through experiments, measure
intelligence through IQ tests, and symbols that depict intelligence.
• Theory of people composing “separate intelligence” that allows them to become prodigies and
exceed the intelligence expectations of people their age.
5. IMPLICATIONS OF WORK
(List the 2 – 5 most important implications of all of this research)
• Intelligence grows, and you can train your brain to become smarter through the addition of more
knowledge.
• Some people are gifted, and they are considered prodigies. Exceed the levels of science.
• Life risking injuries, such as strokes, can hinder a person’s ability to reach potential in certain
fields of knowledge.
• Intelligence evolves over time because as new skills are attained, new knowledge is attained.
6. LIMITATION OF WORK
(List the 2 – 5 most important limitations of this area of research)
• How can we explain “gifted people”. Why are some people so much better at certain intelligence
as opposed to others? Like musical intelligence, linguistic, spatial, and logical.
• Why can’t people train themselves to attain the highest level of intelligence in each field?
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Document Summary
Intelligence is composed of various mental abilities, each possessing in itself the characteristics of complete free standing intelligence. Intelligence grows, and you can train your brain to become smarter through the addition of more knowledge: some people are gifted, and they are considered prodigies. Exceed the levels of science: life risking injuries, such as strokes, can hinder a person"s ability to reach potential in certain fields of knowledge. Intelligence evolves over time because as new skills are attained, new knowledge is attained: limitation of work (list the 2 5 most important limitations of this area of research, how can we explain gifted people .
