成都电子机械高等专科学校：《大学英语》课程教学资源（PPT课件讲稿）Book 2 Unit 9 What Is Intelligence, Anyway

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Book 2 Unit 9 What Is Intelligence, Anyway?

Pre-Reading activities Text New Word reading Text A: Language Points ° Newspaper Reading Exercise Check-up Assignment

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Background Information Warm-up Activity Summary of the Text

• Background Information • Warm-upActivity • Summary of the Text

Background Information about the author Intelligence tests The I.O or the intelligence quotient Aptitude tests

Background Information ➢ About the author ➢ Intelligence tests ➢ The I.Q., or the intelligence quotient ➢ Aptitude tests

Background Information Isaac Asimov(1920--),a famous American writer and educator. was born in russia he went to the united States in 1923. He attended Columbia University, where he took his Ph. D in Chemistry. He taught Biochemistry at Boston University Medical School for a while and left in 1958 to devote himself full time to writing. A writer with over two hundred books to his credit(n), he is able to explain complex scientific processes in terms easily understandable to the lay(外行的) person.His books range from science fact and fiction to textbooks and major historical works

Background Information Isaac Asimov (1920 -- ), a famous American writer and educator, was born in Russia. He went to the United States in 1923. He attended Columbia University, where he took his Ph. D. in Chemistry. He taught Biochemistry at Boston University Medical School for a while and left in 1958 to devote himself full time to writing. A writer with over two hundred books to his credit ( 声望）, he is able to explain complex scientific processes in terms easily understandable to the lay (外行的）person. His books range from science fact and fiction to textbooks and major historical works

Background Information Intelligence Test An intelligence test is given to measure a persons intellectual ability--ability to solve different kinds of problems. The distribution of intelligence quotient( he wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale follows an approxi mately nor mal curve ribution of values, The test i regularly adjusted so that the median gore is 100-th so that half of the scores fall above 100 and half fall below 0.1究 INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (Score on wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

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Background Information There are many kinds of intelligence tests today. The first intelligence test. known as the binet /bi'nei/Scale was developed in 1905 by a French psychologist named Alfred Binet. The binet scale has been revised many times for determining the progressive classification (A o)of children's intelligence in the us by psychologists at Stanford University and is now called stanford-Binet Scale. For years the Binet Scale was the only widely known intelligence test

Background Information There are many kinds of intelligence tests today. The first intelligence test, known as the Binet /bi‘nei / Scale, was developed in 1905 by a French psychologist named Alfred Binet. The Binet Scale has been revised many times for determining the progressive classification （分 级）of children's intelligence in the US by psychologists at Stanford University and is now called Stanford-Binet Scale. For years the Binet Scale was the only widely known intelligence test

Background Information Then came World War The us government needed a way to test the intelligence of more than one million army recruits. For this purpose, the group intelligence test was designed. Recruits (R) had to score a certain minimum to be acceptable for service in the us military. And since then it has almost become a sort of routine (Ff) to give recruits an intelligence test

Background Information Then came World War I. The US Government needed a way to test the intelligence of more than one million army recruits. For this purpose, the group intelligence test was designed. Recruits （新兵）had to score a certain minimum to be acceptable for service in the US military. And since then it has almost become a sort of routine （常规）to give recruits an intelligence test

Background Information The result of an intelligence test is called an I.Q. short for an intelligence quotient. Generally a person's l Q. is to be obtained by dividing his or her mental age (determined by a test) by his or her real age and multiplying the result by 100 (mental age real age x 100). There are many different intelligence tests which yield (r*HE) results along different numerical scales

Background Information The result of an intelligence test is called an I. Q., short for an intelligence quotient. Generally a person’s I. Q. is to be obtained by dividing his or her mental age (determined by a test) by his or her real age and multiplying the result by 100 (mental age + real age x 100). There are many different intelligence tests which yield （产生）results along different numerical scales

Background Information However, many of those currently in use conform to the following scale: below 85 retardation(迟钝) 85--100 average intelligence 110-120 bright-average intelligence 120--130 intellectually superior above 130 Intellectually very superior Those who have scored 130 or above are usually labeled as gifted", and those who have scored 140 or above, as genius". But not all educators agree that intelligence tests are accurate measures of intellectual ability

Background Information However, many of those currently in use conform to the following scale: below 85 retardation （迟钝） 85 -- 100 average intelligence 110 -- 120 bright-average intelligence 120 -- 130 intellectually superior above 130 intellectually very superior Those who have scored 130 or above are usually labeled as "gifted", and those who have scored 140 or above, as "genius". But not all educators agree that intelligence tests are accurate measures of intellectual ability