Itneligense

1. Itneligense By: Coach McLendon

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3. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

4. Topicks cuverd Do elephants get dumber with age? The Brain. IQ and the test. Defining Intelligence. Theories about intelligence and what they tell us. Factors affecting intelligence/final words.

5. Ellefunts Do you know how an elephant is trained to stay in a captive environment? A young elephant is tied to a stake in the ground that it cannot pull out. So, what’s the rest of the story? Stay tuned.

6. Cete of Inteligense The brain has not always been thought to be the cognitive control center. Historically, it was the heart or lungs that controlled the key functions of the body and were therefore, the most important organs.

7. Brane Fax Only 2% of our bodyweight yet accounts for 20% of our resting energy consumption. Burns 10x the oxygen and glucose of other body organs. Studies show that there is little decline up to age 70 in mental ability and nerve impulse conductions.

8. Ay Qu Intelligence Quotient test was originally written by Frenchman Alfred Binet in 1905. He was asked to create an unbiased assessment for identifying students with needs when compulsory public education began in France.

9. Tranzlashun The test was translated into English by Lewis Termin of Stanford U. who then labeled the new assessment Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. Terman’s test converted the overall performance into one score or IQ. This model is not exactly used today except in name. Now the score is used to determine how far a person deviates from the mean of 100 in their age group.

10. Lost in Tranzlashun IQ scores are deceptive because they attempt to combine a range of abilities and skill sets into one number. Modern studies tend to disagree on several levels with such a finite definition of IQ or intelligence in general. A more accepted definition of intelligence is being debated at this time that should balance the 2 schools of thought on the topic.

11. Pandora’s Bocks Defining intelligence is a bit like describing love. You may know when you’ve had it or seen it but the why seems to be debatable based on the situation or the persons involved. Not everyone is going to describe it just the same. These differences, even within the scientific community, have led to a division on what intelligence is exactly.

12. Cunsencis The debate centers around studies of the Nature vs. Nurture argument otherwise known as Biological vs. Social. Studies show that both are important factors affecting intelligence. The biology argument seems to have the edge for the moment as personality and parent’s IQ, even number of books in the home are big determinants in their offspring’s future school success.

13. “g” Early in the 20th cen. Charles Spearman noticed several correlations on IQ tests. 1. Students that scored well on one tended to do well on the others and conversely that those who did not score well on one continued their “lackluster” performance. 2. Spearman determined this could account for a general intelligence for all intellectual tasks which he called “g”.

14. Multepull Inteligenzes? Intelligence can be summarized by the 3 theories circulating today. 1. Fluid vs. Crystallized 2. Multiple Intelligences 3. Triarchic Theory

15. Flewid vs. Cristulizd This theory is based on the idea of each person’s speed of reasoning and memory known as “Fluid”. The other is experiential learning known as “Crystallized.”

16. Mulltepul Inteligenzes 1983 Gardner theory about a variety of feats of intelligence categorized in 7 ways. The research shows that this theory, although “PC”, is not truly reasonable as there are no tests available to identify and measure specific intelligences. It also denies the fact that there is a tendency for many of these “intelligences” to correlate giving evidence of the “g” factor not a true independent intelligence.

17. Tryarctic Theerie 1980’s Sternberg theory that Intelligence is found in 3 areas. 1. Analytical 2. Creative 3. Practical (Examples ?)

18. Faktores afekting Intelijenz Inherited factors or genetic traits of int. are measurable between 40%-80% of the IQ so the number is generally agreed upon to be 50% for the gen. population.

19. Faktores cont. Environmental factors are accepted as 20%-60% of the IQ. Schooling influences IQ positively as children who attend regularly score higher than those who don’t. Environmental factors include a range of items from parents social status and education levels to cultural background and number of books in the home.

20. Faktores cont. Other significant impacting traits are prior academic knowledge, (remember the books in the home?) and frequency of academically based experiences. These increase the students ability to succeed in school and ultimately in their occupation. Why, you may ask?

21. Phakters cont. Sticht and Hofstetter ’97 studied the significant correlation between academic knowledge, type of occupation and ultimately income in adults. Their findings suggest that even randomly selected adults could be correctly classified by earning power based simply on their test of basic academic knowledge and the individuals score.

22. Finell thauts Poverty is the ultimate enemy of academic success for a variety of reasons. 63% of all students born on or even near the poverty line fail academically as opposed to 37% for non-poverty students.

23. Phinul thauts cont. Lewis Terman compiled data and studied successful students and their families to answer why they seemed to always succeed. Between 1922 and 1992 data shows that successful people and families lived by “Elitist” values.

24. Done? Elitist values promote hard work, dedication, promote competition, self-motivation, respect of elders and others and lay the groundwork for positive family relationships and self awareness. He also stated that a family’s financial status did not make it elite, rather any family could promote these and see the same results. Let’s find out about the elephant and its training.

25. Elephants dumber with age? Remember the young elephant? He was tied to a stake and couldn’t pull it out. Eventually he fails and gives up. Therefore workers never have to change the stake, even when the elephant is full grown and could easily pull it out. He simply will not attempt to pull anymore. So, is the elephant dumber with age or does he just need some encouragement to prove what he can really do?