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Intelligence in the Wild- A Dispositional View of Intellectual Traits

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Intelligence in the Wild- A Dispositional View …

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  • Most accounts of intelligence are “abilities-ce (View Highlight)
  • This side of intellectual performance has been recognized by a growing literature, often, although not always, under the name of thinking disposi tions. Dispositions concern not only what people can do, but how they tend to invest their capabilities—what they are disposed to do, hen (View Highlight)
    • Note: abilities centric means that we can’t observe how the intelligence is used out in the world. it’s a lab, therefore not as useful. I think of me, with math.
  • When we use the everyday language of dispos such as open-mindedness or reflectiveness as ma laws. For example, if we consider a friend open be open-minded most of the time but do not f been transgressed if occas (View Highlight)
  • sionally he fails to be though we know he has the (View Highlight)
  • ability, inclination, and sensitivity (Perkins et al., 1993). Ability concerns basic capacity to carry out a behavior. Inclination concerns the mo (View Highlight)
  • impulse to engage in the behavior. Sensitivity concerns likelihood of notic ing occasions to engage in the behavior (View Highlight)
  • . If an enabling opportunity arose and a lack of ability still blocked the behavior in question, then authors would argue that it cannot logically be called a disposition, although it might rightly be termed a leaning or desire. (View Highlight)
  • Subjects were asked to underline any passages in the story where they perceived a shortcoming in thinking and to explain their own thinking in the margin. For example, in one story, a character named Mrs. Perez fails to think carefully about an important decision. In one passage, she says, “I have no other choice. There’s no other decision I can think of in this situation.” Subjects who performed well at this stage would underline this portion of text and explain in the margin what was wrong with Mrs. Perez’s thinking and how it could be better. (View Highlight)