How should intelligence be defined?

Describe someone who is intelligent. Describe someone who is unintelligent. What is the difference between the two?

Intelligence The ability to learn about, learn from, understand, and interact with one’s environment.

Intelligence Tests A method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores

The general intelligence factor that underlines specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test. As called the g factor

This general ability consists of a number of specific abilities, which include these specific abilities: Adaptability to a new environment or to changes in the current environment Capacity for knowledge and the ability to acquire it Capacity for reason and abstract thought Ability to comprehend relationships Ability to evaluate and judge Capacity for original and productive thought

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Linguistic Logical-Mathematical Musical Spatial Bodily-kinesthetic Intrapersonal Interpersonal Naturalist Existential

Sternberg’s Triarchic Intelligence Analytical Intelligence Traditional notion of intelligence Abstract thinking & logical reasoning Verbal & mathematical skills Creative Intelligence Divergent thinking (generating new ideas) Ability to deal with novel situations Practical Intelligence Street smarts Ability to apply knowledge to the real world Ability to shape one's environment; choose an environment

What is Intelligence? Think of a time when you learned something significant. Think about the way that you learned it. What did you do to learn this significant thing? Were you changed afterwards?