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1 Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 6: Mental Abilities and… Mental Abilities and Skills This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any image; any rental, lease, or lending of the program.

2 Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 6: Mental Abilities and… Purpose To acquaint you with important mental abilities personality draws on To help you appreciate personality’s remarkable resources

3 Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 6: Mental Abilities and… Definition of a Mental Ability The capacity to carry out a mental task – to arrive at the desired sort of solution.

4 Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 6: Mental Abilities and… Major Intelligences: from Mid 20th Century Verbal-Propositional IQ: The capacity to reason with words and logical propositions Perceptual-Organizational IQ: The capacity to reason with pictures and pictorial representations Spatial IQ: The capacity to reason about objects in space (e.g., rotating objects)

5 Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 6: Mental Abilities and… Hot Intelligences “Hot” intelligences – intelligences concerning emotional, or social information of direct importance or concern to the individual. –Emotional intelligence –Social intelligence –Practical intelligence Creativity

6 Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 6: Mental Abilities and… Causes Educational Biological

7 Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 6: Mental Abilities and… Expression of Ability Concrete vs. Abstract Thinking (Case Studies) Influence on Education Influence on World of Work Expression of Creativity in Particular Expression of Emotional Intelligence in Particular

8 Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 6: Mental Abilities and… ~ end ~


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