Intelligence and Creativity (8)

Question 1

Psychometric approach?

Answer 1

Intelligence as a trait or set of traits that characterises some people to a greater extent that others.

Question 2

Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence?

Answer 2

Cattell and Horn.
Fluid: ability to use your mind actively to solve new problems without applying prior knowledge (reasoning, seeing relationships among stimuli, drawing inferences).
Crystallised: the use of knowledge acquired through schooling and other life experiences.

Question 3

Three components of Sternberg’s successful intelligence theory?

Answer 3

1. Practical intelligence: abilities to solve everyday life problems.
2. Creative intelligence: demonstrated in response to novel experiences, requires active and conscious info processing.
3. Analytical intelligence: focus on the info processing skills that produce answers to questions in traditional intelligence tests.

Question 4

Sternberg’s successful intelligence?

Answer 4

• establish and achieve reasonable goals consistent with skills and circumstances
• optimising strengths and minimising weaknesses
• adapting o the environments through selecting a good one and making modifications to oneself or to the environment to increase the fit

Question 5

Sternberg’s investment theory of creativity?

Answer 5

Confluence of:
- Trio of abilities
- Enough knowledge of a field to know what might be missing
- Mentally toying with ideas
- Personality style open to risk and comfortable outside the norm
- Motivation to stay focused and not give up in front of obstacles
- Environment that supports and rewards creative output

Question 6

Bayley scales of infant and toddler development?

Answer 6

Three parts:
1. cognitive scale
2. language scale
3. motor scale

Question 7

Flynn effect?

Answer 7

Average IQ scores have increase by about 3 points per decade.

Question 8

Cumulative deficit hypothesis?

Answer 8

To describe how impoverished environments inhibit intellectual growth and these negative effects accumulate over time
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Question 9

Wheat does HOME stand for?

Answer 9

Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (inventory).

Question 10

Dickens-Flynn Model?

Answer 10

Those with an advantage for a trait become matched with superior environments for that trait