2. • Properties of Intelligence
Ability to Solve Problems
Capacity to Adapt
Learn from Experience
Interpersonal Skills
Creativity
Develop Strategies for Shortcomings
ALFRED BINET WAS THE FIRST TO IMPLEMENT AN INTELLIGENCE TEST
TO DETERMINE WHO COULD BENEFIT FROM INSTRUCTION AND WHO
COULD NOT.
3. Theories of Multiple Intelligences
Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory
States there Three main types of Intelligence
Analytical
Creative
Practical
Garner- Eight types of Intelligence
1. Verbal Skills 3. Spatial Skills 5. Music Skills 7. Intrapersonal Skills
2. Mathematical Skills 4. Kinesthetic Skills 6. Interpersonal Skills 8. Naturalist Skills
4. Extremes of Intelligence
Intellectual Disability Giftedness Creativity
Intellectual Disability
Intelligent Tests are used to identify Exceptional
Individuals
Intellectual Disability was previously called Mental
Retardation
Intellectual Disability is inadequate intellectual functioning
Tests identify the degree of the Disability
DEGREES OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
DEGREES OF SUPPORT TO FUNCTION AT HIGHEST LEVEL
Mild Intermittent
Moderate Limited
Severe Extensive
Profound Pervasive
5. Intellectual Disability
ORGANIC CAUSE – GENETIC DISORDER
IQ usually below 70 on traditional IQ test
Difficulty adapting to life demands
Exhibits characteristics before age 18
Extra Chromosome present
Abnormal Chromosome
Diseases that affect brain
CULTURAL –FAMILIAL
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
IQ usually between 55-70
Experts suspect that disability may come from
growing up in below average intellectual
environment
Individuals Identified in schools: Failed
Academics; Responds to tangible rewards
rather than praise; Highly sensitive to others
7. Giftedness –
Hereditary or
Environment
Precocity – Gifted children begin to master material earlier
than peers
Individuality – Gifted children learn in a unique way than
ordinary children
Passion to Master – Gifted children are driven to understand
the area in which they have a high aptitude
Is giftedness a product of heredity or environment?
Likely Both
(Duggan&Friedman,2014;Johnson&Bouchard,2014)
Characteristics of the Gifted
8. Creativity
The ability to think about something in a novel or unusual way
Creativity requires Divergent Thinking/ Many answers to the
same question (Guilford,1967)
Conventional IQ test requires Convergent Thinking/ one
answer to the question
Many creatively intelligent students are intelligent, but many
highly intelligent may not be creative
9. The
Intellectually
Creative
Characteristics of Creative
Thinkers
Flexible/Playful thinking
Inner motivation
Willingness to risk
Objective evaluation of work
Steps in Creative Process
Preparation - Immersed in issue
Incubation – Unusual connections
Insight – Fitting the pieces together
Evaluation – Deciding if idea is novel
Elaboration –
Final Step/Contemplation
10. References
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