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Chapter 41 - Intelligence and Expertise

from Part VIII - Intelligence in Relation to Allied Constructs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Phillip L. Ackerman
Edited by
Robert J. Sternberg  and
Scott Barry Kaufman
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Oklahoma State University
Scott Barry Kaufman
Affiliation:
New York University
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Summary

This chapter stipulates two broad components of intelligence; General Fluid Intelligence (Gf), which is associated with abstract reasoning and short-term memory, and General Crystallized Intelligence (Gc), which is associated with knowledge and skills. For some kinds of expertise, the domain of knowledge or procedural skill to be acquired is relatively fixed and finite. One of the interesting aspects of expertise that provides an additional basis for aligning it closer to Gc than to Gf is the pattern of growth and decline of expertise that occurs during middle age and older adulthood. Determining the relationship between intelligence and tacit knowledge expertise is more of a challenge than it is for declarative and procedural knowledge. Higher levels of intellectual abilities appear to give the learner a head start or an overall advantage in the acquisition of expertise over learners with lower levels of intelligence.

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behavioral intelligencecognitive intelligencecultural differencesmotivational intelligencemetacognitive intelligencecultural intelligenceempirical research
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The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence , pp. 847 - 860
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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