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November SFL 15, 2010
Intelligence
Sternbergs Triarchic Theory
The true measure of success is not how well one does in school, but how well one does
in life.
Three areas of Successful Intelligence
o Analytical Intelligence
Apply strategies
Acquire task-relevant and metacognitive knowledge
Engage in self-regulation
How of problem solving
o Creative Intelligence
Solve novel problems
Make processing skills automatic to free working memory for complex
thinking
Unfamiliar things take more time to adapt to, common things become
more automated
IQ testing debates
ACT controversies (culturally base, dont measure knowledge in certain
areas)
o Practical Intelligence
Adapt to
Shape and or
Select environments to meet both personal goals and the demands of ones
everyday world
Street smarts (a form of practical intelligence)
Gardners Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Eight independent intelligences
o Linguistic
o Logico-mathematical
o Musical
o Spatial
o Bodily-kinesthetic
o Naturalist
o Interpersonal
o Intrapersonal
Example: Savant syndrome (the movie Rain man) KIM PEAK
Can you delay gratification?
o Children were put in front of mnms and marshmallows and the teacher said that
she would leave the room and if the child could not wait to eat the food, to ring
the bell. If the children do wait they get double the food.
Reptilian Brain: Limbic System
Emotionally Smart
I.Q What is it?
I.Q. Intelligence Quotient
o Simply a score that permits an individuals performance on an intelligence test to
be compared to typical performance of same-age individuals
o Funeducation.com
Gospel Perspectives on Intelligence
Our abilities to learn are unlimited
o God has created man capable of instruction, a with faculty which may be
enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated
from heaven to the intellect. (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith)
Knowledge is light and truth
o The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth . . . And that
wicked one cometh and taketh away light and truth, through disobedience, from
the children of men . . . (D&C 93:36, 39)
o That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God,
receiveth more light, and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect
day. (D&C 50:24)
o If thou shalt ask, thou shalt receive revelation upon revelation, knowledge upon
knowledge, that thou mayest know the mysteries and peaceable things. . . (D&C
42:61)
Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, Conference Report, October, 1929
The Fullness of Times: An age of Light and Truth
o I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2:28)
As a member of the Church, we have the added advantage of having the Spirit of the
Lord to directly teach us and thereby gain knowledge, light, and truth, according to our
diligence
BYU as a unique learning environment
o This university shares with other universities the hope and the labor involved in
rolling back the frontiers of knowledge, but we also know that, through divine
revelation, there are yet many great and important things to be given to mankind
which will have an intellectual and spiritual impact for beyond what mere men
can imagine. Thus, at this university among faculty, students, and administration,
there is, and there must be, an excitement and an expectation about the very
nature and future of knowledge. President Spencer W. Kimball