the ability to provide novel valuable ideas

5 Components of creativity:

1. Expertise - a well developed base of knowledge
2. Imaginative Thinking Skills - the ability to see things in a new ways to recognized patterns and make connections
3. Venturesome Personality - tolerated ambiguity and risk, preserves in overcoming obstacles, and seek new experiences rather than following the pack
4. Intrinsic Motivation - focusing not so much on extrinsic motivators (meeting deadlines, impressing people, or making money) but on the intrinsic pleasure and challenge of their own work
5. Creative Environment - sparks, supports, and refined creative ideas (emotional intelligence)

Are you any of these?

Savant Syndrome - a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing

Mental Retardation - a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score below 70 and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound

Down Syndrome - a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one’s genetic makeup

a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores

Mental Age - a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8

Stanford-Binet - American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) - defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) and multiplied by 100

Aptitude Test - designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn

Achievement Test - a test designed to assess what a person has learned

mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

General Intelligence - a general intelligence factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental ability and is therefore measured by everyday tasks

Analytical (academic problem solving) Intelligence - assessed by intelligence tests, which present well-defined problems having a single right answer

Creative Intelligence - demonstrated in reacting adaptively to novel situations and generating novel ideas

Practical Intelligence - often required to everyday tasks, which are frequently ill-defined, will multiple solutions

Emotional Intelligence - the ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions

Which type of intelligence do you think you are?