WHAT IS

INTELLIGENCE?

FOR AMERICA

Problem Solving and Practical Skills

Verbal Ability

Social Competence

AND

FOR JEAN PIAGET

Physical

Involves the use of your motor skills in adapting to varying situations

Symbolic

Is the ability to communicate within an environment .

FOR HOWARD GARDNERLinguistic intelligence

Logical Mathematical

Spatial Intelligence

Musical Intelligence

Body-Kinesthetic Intelligence

Intrapersonal Intelligence

Interpersonal Intelligence

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For Robert S. SternbergAnalyti cal

Intelligence

Creati ve Intelligence

Practi cal Intelligence

Measuring Intelligence•It was developed by: Alfred Binet.•It measures skill such as: judgment, comprehension, and reasoning.•It gives us our IQ.

Aptitude Test•Are designed to predict what a person can accomplished in the future.•It measures skill such as: mathematical and verbal.

Sternberg Multidimensional Ability Test•Are designed by Robert Sternberg•It measures his Triarchic Theory of Intelligence: analytical, creative, and practical.

LITERACY

FUNCTIONAL MEDIA INFORMATIONAL/ REFERENCE CULTURAL

Ability to operate within our environment.

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Ability to manage what we watch, read, and listen

Ability to understand data of all types.

DATA

Encompasses History, Philosophy, and the arts.

Common

Knowledge

The Guilford Model of Thinking

Describes the five operations the human mind goes through in processing information

Cognition: includes awareness, understanding, and comprehension of the information

Memory: It gives meaning and importance to ones’ cognition.

Divergent Production: it seek things such as quantity, creativity, and flexibility.

Convergent Production: It is when you make a decision.

Judgment: Is the evaluation of the decision made.

Patterns of ThinkingEmotional Thinking ProcessDecisions made by sympathy, passion, or prejudice

Logical Thinking ProcessDecisions made by the facts of the situation dictate or justify it

Vertical Thinking ProcessUses a step-by-step procedure to

make decisions.

Horizontal Thinking ProcessDecisions are based on one’s ability to select from a wide variety of choices developed from many angles.

Critical Thinking ProcessTakes many factors into consideration before making a decision. It includes: emotion, logic, and ethics.

Age Groups and Critical Thinking

Ages 12-17

Most decisions are made for the individuals by authority figures. Very little independent thinking is done.

Decisions are made by “if it feels good, do it”. They favor emotions and feelings.

Ages 18-21

Ages 22-25

Knowledge is entirely subjective, and as a result, everything must be consider tentative.

Ages 25 on

Logic and reason, along with emotion, become important qualities. They learned to live with contradictions.

Critical Thinking Knowledge Skills are

Intellectually curios

Open-minded

Use Anecdotes effectively

Handle Confusion

Controlling Emotions

Distinguish between something that might or we would like to be

“true”

Sensitive to Others

Admitting not knowing

Seek for other ideas that are not their own.

Avoid Irrelevance

All the skills requires the person to be physically and symbolically intelligent.

“Critical Thinking is only possible when people probe their habitual ways of thinking, for their underlying assumption, those taken-for-granted values, common-senseIdeas, and stereotypical notions about human nature that underlie our actions”