People's Conceptions of Intelligence. Technical Report No. 28.

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Main Authors: Sternberg, Robert J., And Others
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Published: 1980
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contents People's Conceptions of Intelligence. Technical Report No. 28. Sternberg, Robert J. And Others Cognitive Style Correlation Evaluation Intelligence Intelligence Differences Lay People Metacognition Specialists Students Theories Three experiments are reported investigating experts' and laypersons' conceptions of intelligence. In the first experiment, persons studying in a college library, entering a supermarket, and waiting for trains in a railroad station were asked to list behaviors characteristic of either "intelligence,""academic intelligence,""everyday intelligence," or "unintelligence," and to rate themselves on each of the three kinds of intelligence. In the second experiment, experts and laypersons (excluding students) were asked to rate various properties of the behaviors listed in Experiment 1; the laypersons also rated themselves on the three kinds of intelligence and took an IQ test. In the third experiment, laypersons received written descriptions of behaviors characterizing fictitious people, and were asked to rate these people's intelligence. Results indicated that people have well-formed prototypes corresponding to the various kinds of intelligence, that these prototypes are quite similar for experts and laypersons, that the prototypes are closely related to certain psychological theories of intelligence, and that the prototypes are used in the evaluation of one's own and others' intelligence. Moreover, proximity of one's behavioral self-characterizations to an ideal prototype is quite strongly related to intelligence as measured by an IQ test. (Author/RL)
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spellingShingle People's Conceptions of Intelligence. Technical Report No. 28.
Sternberg, Robert J.
And Others
Cognitive Style
Correlation
Evaluation
Intelligence
Intelligence Differences
Lay People
Metacognition
Specialists
Students
Theories
People's Conceptions of Intelligence. Technical Report No. 28. Sternberg, Robert J. And Others Cognitive Style Correlation Evaluation Intelligence Intelligence Differences Lay People Metacognition Specialists Students Theories Three experiments are reported investigating experts' and laypersons' conceptions of intelligence. In the first experiment, persons studying in a college library, entering a supermarket, and waiting for trains in a railroad station were asked to list behaviors characteristic of either "intelligence,""academic intelligence,""everyday intelligence," or "unintelligence," and to rate themselves on each of the three kinds of intelligence. In the second experiment, experts and laypersons (excluding students) were asked to rate various properties of the behaviors listed in Experiment 1; the laypersons also rated themselves on the three kinds of intelligence and took an IQ test. In the third experiment, laypersons received written descriptions of behaviors characterizing fictitious people, and were asked to rate these people's intelligence. Results indicated that people have well-formed prototypes corresponding to the various kinds of intelligence, that these prototypes are quite similar for experts and laypersons, that the prototypes are closely related to certain psychological theories of intelligence, and that the prototypes are used in the evaluation of one's own and others' intelligence. Moreover, proximity of one's behavioral self-characterizations to an ideal prototype is quite strongly related to intelligence as measured by an IQ test. (Author/RL)
title People's Conceptions of Intelligence. Technical Report No. 28.
topic Cognitive Style
Correlation
Evaluation
Intelligence
Intelligence Differences
Lay People
Metacognition
Specialists
Students
Theories
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED198148