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Individual Differences

This document discusses individual differences in learning, including theories of intelligence and learning styles. It analyzes concepts such as intelligence, learning styles, multiple intelligences, and motivation. The key points covered are: - Theories of intelligence include structural views that see it as what IQ tests measure, and process views that see it as general abilities like learning from experience. - Learning styles refer to an individual's preferred way of learning, such as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic styles. - Multiple intelligences recognizes different types of abilities beyond academic skills. - Motivation principles explore what drives learning behavior and performance.

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Individual Differences

This document discusses individual differences in learning, including theories of intelligence and learning styles. It analyzes concepts such as intelligence, learning styles, multiple intelligences, and motivation. The key points covered are: - Theories of intelligence include structural views that see it as what IQ tests measure, and process views that see it as general abilities like learning from experience. - Learning styles refer to an individual's preferred way of learning, such as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic styles. - Multiple intelligences recognizes different types of abilities beyond academic skills. - Motivation principles explore what drives learning behavior and performance.

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Focus on

Learners
Unit 2
 Individual Differences:
Intelligence
 Learning/ Thinking
Styles
 Multiples
Intelligences
 Principles and
Theories of
Motivation
Intended Learning Outcomes:

Analyze
concepts of
Demonstrate
individual Draw the
awareness of
differences in implications of
the principles of
learning Distinguish the diversity in
motivation and
according to different styles designing and
its effect on the
different of learning. assessing
teaching-
theories of learning
learning
intelligence: activities.
process.
structural and
process.
Individual Differences:
Intelligence
Unique
characteristics

Individual Differences

Heredity and
Environment

Intelligence
I
Q
A E
Q Q
S
Q
Intelligence
• Some theorists view it as simply
what intelligence tests measure.

• Others view it as a set of general


Intelligence abilities, including the ability to
learn from experience, think in
abstract terms, and deal effectively
with one’s environment.
The Story of Tommy
Tommy was born in December 1856,
In Virginia, USA, to Janet Woodrow,
the daughter of a Presbyterian
minister, and Joseph Wilson, himself
a Presbyterian minister who became a
leader of the Presbyterian Church in
the American South.

Tommy’s parents were educated people


who highly valued learning.

As a schoolboy, however, Tommy had


great difficulty reading. Despite
attending special schools, he still was
not able to read until late childhood,
around age 10 or 11.
With a great deal of hard work, he
was eventually able to qualify for
admission to the College of New
Jersey, which later became
Princeton University. Even in
college, however, Tommy did not
excel at coursework.

To this point, you might predict that


Tommy’s chances for success in life
were only moderate. We might say
today that ‘he didn’t look good on
paper’.
Tommy was Thomas Woodrow Wilson. After
graduating from Princeton, he earned a law
degree from the University of Virginia and a
doctorate in political science from Johns
Hopkins University.

During periods as a professor at Bryn Mawr


College, Wesleyan University, and Princeton
University, Wilson wrote nine books and
became a respected essayist.
He was named
president of Princeton
in 1902 and then won
the race for governor of
New Jersey in a
landslide election in
1910.

1902 1912

In 1912, he ran for president


of the United States against
the incumbent, President
William Howard Taft, and
won, becoming the 28th U.S.
president.
During his eight years in office, Wilson led the United
States through World War I and worked extensively to
establish the postwar armistice and peace in Europe.

In 1919, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in


establishing the League of Nations.

Based on his accomplishments across the course of his


life, most people would say that Thomas Woodrow
Wilson was an intelligent man.
• Sir Francis Galton - first attempt to develop a measure
Short History for intellectual ability
• A question of exceptional sensory and perceptual skills,
of Intelligence which are passed from one generation to the next.
• Proposed eugenics or selective breeding
• The first successful intelligence tests
were developed by the French
psychologist Alfred Binet, who proposed
the concept of mental age.
Short
History of • The concept of the intelligence quotient
(IQ), was introduced when the Binet
Intelligence scales were revised to create the
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.

• IQ =
• Both Binet and
Wechsler, the developer
of the Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale
Short History of (WAIS), assumed that
Intelligence intelligence is a general
capacity for reasoning.
Intelligence: Concepts

• Nature of intelligence involved


the following themes (Woolfolk,
2013)
• The capacity to learn
• The total knowledge a person
has acquired
• Ability to adapt to new
situations and the
environment in general
Intelligence : Definition and Concept
(Theories of Intelligence, n. d.)

• Intelligence is a combination of the


ability to:
• Learn.
• Recognize problems
• Solve problems
The Dot
Problem
Crack the
Code

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