Unit 9 Personality Intelligence Lesson 3 Defining Intelligence

Unit 9: Personality & Intelligence Lesson 3: Defining Intelligence Lesson Essential Questions • What is intelligence Lesson Vocab (make vocab card for each term): • Fluid intellitence • Crystallized intelligence • Processing speed • Verbal intelligence • Emotional intelligence • Spatial intelligence • Kinesthetic intelligence • Intrapersonal intelligence • Interpersonal intelligence • Howard Gardner • Robert Sternberg • Charles Spearman • General intelligence • DAILY COMMENTARY: 1. Quick Review for Personality Quiz! 2. Take Survey on Multiple Intelligences 3. In general, what do you believe makes a person “smart? ” Take out your intelligence test from last night. 4. 1. 2. 3. What was fun? What were you best at? What was most challenging?

Unit 9: Personality & Intelligence Lesson 3: Defining Intelligence • LESSON GOAL: After this lesson, you should be able to: – compare, contrast, and evaluate historic and contemporary theories of intelligence • • REQUIRED READINGS THIS UNIT: Myers 431 -442 Griggs 202 -211 Students are assigned TWO of the articles below: – Cowley, Geoffrey. Testing the Science of Intelligence – Gibbs, Nancy. The EQ Factor – Paul, Annie Murphy: “How to Be Brilliant. ” – Cohen, Patricia. Charting Creativity: Signposts of a Hazy Territory. ” – Strauch, Barbara. “How to Train the Aging Brain. ” DEADLINES & HOMEWORK: • www. mrggpsychology. weebly. com • Performance Task Deadlines: – Lesson 1: Conduct a personality analysis of a well- known celebrity or politician of your choice. Your analysis must be conducted from TWO different approaches to personality study. Choose two options between: Psychoanalysis, Humanistic Psych, socialcognitive, or trait theory) • Unit 9 Vocab Quizzes: – Lessons 1 & 2: March 24 th – Lessons 3 & 4 (Intelligence): March 26 th

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What does it mean to be intelligent? • • • To learn from experience How well you retain info Adapting to new situations Knowing things Problem solving

Fluid v. Crystallized Intelligence • Fluid – – Problem solving Processing speed Logical reasoning Creativity • What we CAN DO • Crystallized – Knowledge – Information • WHAT WE KNOW

Take out your intelligence test • How long did it take you to finish? • +5 if you finished in under 20 minutes • +3 if you finished in under 30 minutes

Correct Answers 1. Friday 2. P Y – completes the spelling of SILVER ANNIVERSARY 3. 25 4. Anniversary 5. MENSA 6. B 7. B 8. B 9. TOM 10. HOUSE 11. JANE 12. 9 pm 13. b – both grow below ground 14. A 15. e – only one that is not an artistic work made by humans

Correct answers 16. PARACHUTE 17. 5 18. c 19. LAND 20. C – the number of lines goes down opposite the stick, up on the side with the stick, and the stick alternates from the lower left to the top right

SCORING • 1 point for each correct answer • 25 – excellent Mensa candidates – Add 5 points if you • 24 -25 – will almost finished in less than 20 surely pass the minutes Mensa supervised – Add 3 points if you test finished in less than 30 • 14 -19 – good candidates • 10 -13 – fair candidate • <10 – not your day?

Howard Gardner proposes eight types of intelligences • speculates about a ninth one — existential intelligence. Existential intelligence is the ability to think about the question of life, death and existence. 10

Multiple Intelligence Survey A. Verbal B. Logic/Math C. Visual-spatial D. Kinesthetic / body E. Musical F. Intrapersonal G. interpersonal

Robert Sternberg (1985, 1999, 2003) also agrees with Gardner, but suggests three intelligences rather than eight. 1. 2. 3. Analytical Intelligence: Intelligence that is assessed by intelligence tests. Creative Intelligence: Intelligence that makes us adapt to novel situations, generating novel ideas. Practical Intelligence: Intelligence that is required for everyday tasks (e. g. street smarts). 13

Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand, and use emotions (Salovey and colleagues, 2005). The test of emotional intelligence measures overall emotional intelligence and its four components. 14

Emotional Intelligence: Components Component Perceive emotion Understand emotion Manage emotion Use emotion Description Recognize emotions in faces, music and stories Predict emotions, how they change and blend Express emotions in different situations Utilize emotions to adapt or be creative 15

Emotional Intelligence: Criticism Gardner and others criticize the idea of emotional intelligence and question whether we stretch this idea of intelligence too far when we apply it to our emotions. 16

Intelligence and Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable. It correlates somewhat with intelligence. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Expertise: A well-developed knowledge base. Imaginative Thinking: The ability to see things in novel ways. Adventuresome Personality: A personality that seeks new experiences rather than following the pack. Intrinsic Motivation: A motivation to be creative from within. A Creative Environment: A creative and supportive environment allows creativity to bloom. 17

Theories: Comparison 18

Environmental Influences Studies of twins and adopted children also show the following: 1. Fraternal twins raised together tend to show similarity in intelligence scores. 2. Identical twins raised apart show slightly less similarity in their intelligence scores. 19

Ethnic Similarities and Differences To discuss this issue we begin with two disturbing but agreed upon facts: 1. 2. Racial groups differ in their average intelligence scores. High-scoring people (and groups) are more likely to attain high levels of education and income. 20

Gender Similarities and Differences There are seven ways in which males and females differ in various abilities. 1. Girls are better spellers 2. Girls are verbally fluent and have large vocabularies 3. Girls are better at locating objects 4. Girls are more sensitive to touch, taste, and color 5. Boys outnumber girls in counts of underachievement 6. Boys outperform girls at math problem solving, but under perform at math computation 7. Women detect emotions more easily than men do 21

Quick Write • Based on your understanding of Gardner’s work, which intelligences do you are strongest with? • Weakest?

TONIGHT: 1. Develop draft of your Personality Analysis (DUE THURSDAY) 2. Do your reading for THURSDAY’S socratic seminar 3. Complete the: Get Smart module on Psych. Sim 5