What is Intelligence??

By: Keana Smith Natalie Craig & Christopher Long

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

If you have a disability, would it effect everything you do?

Alfred Binet

Down Syndrome/ Low Intelligence

High Intelligence

Stephen Hawking