UNIT 2: SELF AND OTHERS

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UNIT 2 SELF AND OTHERS

• AREA OF STUDY 2 INTELLIGENCE PERSONALITY

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INTELLIGENCE TESTS

• Go to the following websites to find out how
  intelligent you are!!!
• http//intelligence-test.net/part1/
• www.intelligencetest.com/
• www.begent.org/intelquiz.htm
• DO YOU AGREE WITH YOU RESULTS? WHY OR WHY NOT?

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INTELLIGENCE

• How would you describe intelligence?
• Are there different kinds of intelligence?
• Does intelligence change over time?
• To what extent is intelligence inherited?

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INTELLIGENCE

• INTELLIGENCE IS A
• HYPOTHETICAL CONSTRUCT
• (We cant see or touch intelligence, its
  intangible)
• So how do we know it exists?

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INTELLIGENCE

• Because we cant see it or touch it, this makes
  it really hard for psychologists to come up with
  a commonly accepted definition of intelligence
• A widely accepted definition of psychology is
• Intelligence involves the ability to learn from
  experience, to acquire knowledge, to reason and
  solve problems, to deal with people and objects,
  and to adapt effectively to the environment

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HOMEWORK

• LEARNING ACTIVITY 11.1 (pg.407)

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE
PSYCHOLOGIST DESCRIPTION
ALFRED BINET INTELLIGENCE AS AN AGE-RELATED SET OF ABILITIES
DAVID WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE AS VERBAL AND PERFORMANCE ABILITIES
HOWARD GARDNER THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
ROBERT STERNBERG TRIARCHIC THEORY OF INTELLIGENCE
RAYMOND CATTELL JOHN HORN JOHN CARROLL MODEL OF PSYCHOMETRIC ABILITIES
PETER SALOVEY JOHN MAYER ABILITY BASED MODEL OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• ALFRED BINET
• Intelligence As An Age-Related Set of Abilities
  
• Was employed by the French government to identify
  children in schools with learning difficulties
• 3 YEAR OLDS LEAST INTELLIGENT
• 5 YEAR OLDS
• 7 YEAR OLDS MOST INTELLIGENT

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HOMEWORK

• LEARNING ACTIVITY 11.2 (pg.407)

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• DAVID WECHSLER
• Intelligence As Verbal Performance Abilities
• Believed that other psychologists focused too
  much on those skills that allow people to do well
  at school
• Viewed intelligence as
• The global and aggregate capacity to act
  purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal
  effectively with the environment

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• DAVID WECHSLER
• Intelligence As Verbal Performance Abilities
• VERBAL ABILITY
• PERFORMANCE
• ABILITY

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• DAVID WECHSLER
• Intelligence As Verbal Performance Abilities
• Wechsler suggested 4 conditions that need to be
  present for any behaviour to be described as
  intelligent
• Awareness
• Goal Directed
• Rational
• Worthwhile

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HOMEWORK

• LEARNING ACTIVITY 11.3 (pg.409)

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• HOWARD GARDNER
• Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• HOWARD GARDNER
• Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
• Linguistic
• Musical
• Logical/Mathematical Naturalistic
• Spatial Existential
• Bodily-Kinesthetic
• Intrapersonal
• Interpersonal

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• HOWARD GARDNER
• Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
• Believes that each intelligence is different and
  independent
• A person can be strong in one or two
  intelligences, weak in others
• Is body control (kinesthetic) an intelligence?
• Refers to Savant Syndrome low overall
  intelligence
• high intelligence in one area

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HOMEWORK

• LEARNING ACTIVITY 11.4 (pg.414)

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• ROBERT STERNBERG
• Triarchic Theory Of Intelligence

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• ROBERT STERNBERG
• Triarchic Theory Of Intelligence
• ANALYTICAL the ability to complete
  academic problem-solving tasks
• CREATIVE the ability to successfully
  deal with new and unusual
  situations by drawing on existing
  knowledge and skills
• PRACTICAL the ability to adapt to
  everyday life by drawing on existing
  knowledge and skills

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• ROBERT STERNBERG
• Triarchic Theory Of Intelligence
• Sternberg proposes that these three parts involve
  abilities that are different, separate and not
  fixed
• A person may be stronger in one and not the
  others
• When a person is equal in all 3, Sternberg
  describes that person as having successful
  intelligence

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HOMEWORK

• LEARNING ACTIVITY 11.8 (pg.416)

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• CATTELL/HORN/CARROLL
• Model Of Psychometric Abilities
• Metric measurement
• Psycho psychological abilities
• Cattel Horn first developed a theory called the
  Gf-Gc theory
• Gf Fluid Intelligence reasoning for problem
  solving
• Gc Crystallised Intelligence the use of
  knowledge and skills we acquire through
  experience

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• CATTELL/HORN/CARROLL
• Model Of Psychometric Abilities
• Horn-Cattell Gf-Gc theory
• Carroll 3-stratum theory
• CHC model
• (developed by Kevin McGrew Dawn Flanagan)

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE
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HOMEWORK

• LEARNING ACTIVITY 11.10 (pg.420)

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• SALOVEY MAYER
• Ability Based Model of Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Intelligence the ability to recognise
  the meanings of emotions and their
  relationships, and to reason and
  problem solve on the basis of
  emotions
• 4 BRANCHES OF ABILITIES
• INVOLVED IN EMOTIONAL
• INTELLIGENCE

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WAYS OF DESCRIBING INTELLIGENCE

• SALOVEY MAYER
• Ability Based Model of Emotional Intelligence
• 4 BRANCHES of ABILITIES in Emotional Intelligence
• PERCEIVING EMOTIONS
• FACILITATING THOUGHT
• UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS
• MANAGING EMOTIONS

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HOMEWORK

• LEARNING ACTIVITY 11.13 (pg.424)