Intelligence
Intelligence:
- Ability to: Reason, apply knowledge, understand
What is it?
- One thing, a few, many:
Intelligence as a single trait:
- G - general intelligence
- Correlation between intelligent traits between people
Intelligence as a few:
- Crystallized intelligence: factual knowledge
- Increases steadily
- Fluid inteligence: ability to think on the spot
- Declines with age
Many things:
- Remembering, planning, perceiving, etc
Three stratum:
- Extremely general - General intelligence
- Moderately general - fluid, crystallized, learning
- Specific
Measuring intelligence (Binet)
- Developed IQ to tell which kids need attention
- Intelligence Quotient