1. Theories of Multiple Intelligences
1.1. Sternberg's Triarchic Theory
1.1.1. According to Robert J. Sternberg, intelligence comes in three forms: analytical, creative and practical.
1.2. Gardner's Eight Frames of Mind
1.2.1. Verbal skills, mathematical skills, spatial skills, bodlly-kinesthetic skills, musical skills, intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills and naturalists skills
2. The neuroscience of intelligence
2.1. The most prominent finding from brain imaging studies reveals that a distributed neutral network involving the frontal and parietal lobes is related to higher intelligence.
3. Controversies and issues in intelligence
3.1. Nature and nurture
3.1.1. Nature refers to a child's biological inheritance, nurture to enviromental experiences
4. Personality and temperament
4.1. Personality refers to distinctive thoughts, emotions and behaviors that chracterizethe way an indivodual adapts to the world
4.1.1. The "big five"personality factors are: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.
4.2. Temperament is a person's behavioral style and characteristic ways of responding
4.2.1. The temperament classifications are: The easy child, the difficult child and slow-to-warm-up child
5. Intelligence
5.1. ability to solve problems and to adapt and learn from experiencies.
6. Intelligence tests
6.1. The Binet Tests
6.1.1. Made by Alfred Binet to devise a method of identifying children who were unable to learn in school. He created the concept mental age (MA)
6.2. The Wechsler Scales
6.2.1. It was developed by psychologist David Wechsler. it not only focused on IQ.
6.3. Group Intelligence Tests
6.3.1. Some examples are the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests and the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test. They have their disadvantages.
7. Learning and thinking styles
7.1. Impulsive/reflective styles
7.1.1. They involve student's tendency either to act quickly and impulsively or to take more time to respond and reflet on the accuracy of the answer
7.2. Deep/surface styles
7.2.1. Involve how students approach learning materials. Whatever if they do this in a way that helps them understand the meaning of the material (deep style) or as simply what needs to be learned (surface style).