Contemporary Theories of Intelligence

Abstract

The chapter begins with an overview of how theories of intelligence matter for theoretical and practical everyday life, followed by a review of classical and contemporary theories of intelligence. Contemporary theories of intelligence that have an important educational impact are presented and critically evaluated. An emphasis is placed on clarifying implicit theories of intelligence, or people's informal conceptions of intelligence, versus explicit theories of intelligence, or experts' formal conceptions of what is intelligence. The chapter ends with challenges to current conceptions of intelligence that leads the reader to draw some important conclusions about the need for more careful analysis in the future.

Tracing Giftedness: An Exploration of Theories, Programmes and Emerging Dilemmas

“…For example, Joseph Renzulli"s Three-Ring Model considers above average ability, creativity and task commitment as the parameters for gifted behaviour. Robert Sternberg"s theory of Successful Intelligence highlights "the ability to adapt to, shape, and select environments to accomplish one's goals and those of one's society and culture" (Sternberg, 1997as cited in Reynolds & Miller, 2013. The Dynamic theory of giftedness by Lev Vygotsky emphasises social aspects of an individual"s experience as playing an important role in the development of giftedness.…”

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“…Intelligence describes an individual's intellectual ability to reason, understand complex ideas, and adapt successfully to the environment (Cattell, ; Sternberg, , ). Particularly in the early school years, when students are less familiar with the learning content and less prior knowledge is available, intelligence is of high predictive value for academic outcomes (Helmke & Weinert, ).…”

Implicit Preconceptions of Male and Female Intelligence in Contemporary Russia

“…Nevertheless, studies on lay theories of intelligence show consistent differences [3][4][5][6][7]. Moreover, there is a lot of evidence that at the level of everyday perception intellectuality is a masculine characteristic [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

“…Moreover, there is a lot of evidence that at the level of everyday perception intellectuality is a masculine characteristic [4][5][6][7][8][9]. Also a lot of data show that these differences are culture biased [1,6,[10][11][12][13].…”