After you have finished reading the chapter, imagine the following:…

Question Answered step-by-step After you have finished reading the chapter, imagine the following:… After you have finished reading the chapter, imagine the following: Wherever you are right now, I have arranged for a team of psychologists to assess your intelligence. Magically, they are outside your door right now, or around the corner, ready to run an assessment. If this were true (and there was no escape), what test(s) of intelligence would you want them to administer? That is, knowing that they air aiming to draw conclusions about the “status” of your intelligence, which of the different theoretical formulations in Chapter 8 would you feel most satisfied with? A standard IQ test? Gardner’s “multiple intelligences”? Any of them? If not, is there any arrangement under which you would you feel comfortable saying, “Yes, that’s a good, solid, accurate picture of my intelligence…”? If not, what’s missing? What are the gaps in these formulations? What else, in your view, ought to be done or assessed?For instance, you might imagine continuing to divide Gardner’s framework. With musical intelligence, for example, are there separate intelligences for singing, composing, performing with an instrument, or appreciating music? Are writing ability and speaking ability separate forms of language intelligence? And if we are willing to accept these divisions as acceptable additions to the growing definition of intelligence, where do we draw the line? On what basis do we exclude an ability from the list? Is there a “culinary intelligence” for those who are surpassingly great cooks? Is “sense of humor” a kind of intelligence? What about the extraordinary ability of actors to mimic, impersonate, or otherwise adopt a fictional persona? Aspects of intelligence or not? If we are unwilling to admit any of these (humor, acting, or cooking) as legitimate forms of intelligence, what criteria exclude them or make them ineligible? And what do you think of Einstein’s estimation…? Social Science Psychology PSYC 311 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)