Defining intelligence - intelligence presentation...

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intelligence presentation
Shalene Smith
BEH/225
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Michael O’Shea

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What is intelligence?
Macmillan encyclopedia definitions:
“The ability to reason and profit by experience”
“Determined by complex interaction between
heredity and environment” (2003)
Psychology: An introduction definition:
“ability or abilities involved in learning and
adaptive behavior” (2002)

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Intelligence characteristics
laypersons experts Practical problem
solving ability
Problem-solving
ability
Source: Sternberg, 1982; Wagner & Sternberg, 1986.

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Early Theories
L. L. Thurstone
VS.
R. B. Cattell Spatial ability Intelligence clusters:

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Contemporary Theories
Sternberg’s Triarchic theory:

Involves mental and analytical  skills
Gardiner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences:
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Many relatively independent intelligences
Goleman’s Theory of Emotional intelligence:
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Ability to perceive and understand personal and non-