Occupation: Psychologist Birth: December 8, 1949
And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing..
I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses..
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that pra….
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really,….
The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intel….
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success..
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them..
You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens..
The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly..
If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very f….
Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tes….
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids do….
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still..
If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that ….
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think ….
There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another..
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially a….
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology..
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this lit….
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing material….
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in….