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What is Intelligence??
By: Keana Smith Natalie Craig & Christopher Long
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Theories of Intelligence• We are interested in your ideas.• Using the scale below, please indicate the extent to
which you agree or disagree with each of the following statements
• by writing the number that corresponds to your opinion in the space next to each statement.1-Strongly Agree 2- Agree 3-Mostly Agree 4-Mostly Disagree 5-Disagree 6-Strongly Disagree
• 1. You have a certain amount of intelligence, and you can’t really do much to change it.
• 2. Your intelligence is something about you that you can’t change very much.
• 3. No matter who you are, you can significantly change your intelligence.
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• 4. To be honest, you can’t really change how intelligent you are.
• 5. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.
• 6. You can learn new things, but you can’t really change your basic intelligence.
• 7. No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit.
• 8. You can change even your basic intelligence level considerably.
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Fact or False??• T F 1. People with higher IQs have longer life spans.
• T F 2. Exceptionally creative architects, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers usually score no higher on intelligence tests than do their less creative peers.
• T F 3. Highly educated people die with more synapses than their less-educated peers.”
• T F 4. There is a slight positive correlation between brain size and intelligence score.
• T F 5. The concern with individual differences in intelligence is strictly a twentieth century American phenomenon.
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• T F 6. Today’s Americans score higher on IQ tests than Americans did in the 1930s.
• T F 7. How quickly 2- to 7-month-old babies become bored with a picture is one indicator of later intelligence.
• T F 8. Among the mentally retarded, males outnumber females by 50 percent.
• T F 9. As adopted children grow older, their intelligence scores become more similar to those of their biological parents than to those of their adoptive parents.
• T F 10. Aptitude score is a much better predictor of the college performance of whites than it is of blacks.
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If you have a disability, would it effect everything you do?
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Alfred Binet
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Down Syndrome/ Low Intelligence
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High Intelligence
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Stephen Hawking