PSYC 1215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Savant Syndrome, Robert Sternberg, Jean Piaget
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At least: to be effective and adaptable in you life. Two principal theorists: operations: -hypothesis re: how the mind works (where have we talked about operations before?) Intelligence: how we engage our world with thought and action. Using analytical intelligence to adapt to novel situations / create situations / syntheses favourable to self. This is not a passive / automatic process but is directed by purpose / *ch. 10 e-handout - robert sternberg"s (2002) four elements of successful intelligence. Information processing functions: academic / analytic (components of thinking) Direct mental effort [(a) & (b)] to solve problems, monitor outcomes. Reflect on work done (eg. quality, accuracy, coherence, relevance, usefulness, novelty : performance: info gathering, storage, retrieval, comparisons, knowledge acquisition: (data collection / evaluation (for a purpose, meta-components: executive function. 3 interconnected aspects of intelligence (our work"s value to goals) Application of analytic intelligence to real situations / environments. Argues: existence of multiple intelligences which operate relatively independent of each.
