Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Intellectual
- Attention
- Focussing on something without becoming
distracted by other aspects of the environment.
- Assists in learning new material
- Can be developed through a rewards system
- Generally the lower the age, the lower the attention span.
- Refers to the increased intricacy of the
brain and the processes in the brain.
- Thought patterns
- Abstract
- Looking at the deeper
meaning of an object and
thinking about concepts
and ideas.
- E.g. Looking at a pen and seeing it
as a learning tool that enables you to
communicate and learn.
- Concrete
- Looking and accepting only the
physicality of an object.
- E.g. Looking at a pen and just
seeing it as a general piece of
stationary.
- Problem solving
- This process requires an individual to reach an
unknown destination.
- Use methods such as trial and error to solve
- Eg. fixing a computer, fitting a number of commitments into a
small timeframe
- Knowledge
- Gains complexity as people develop
intellectually
- The longer a person has been intellectually developing, the
more chances they have to expand their knowledge.
- Language
- The knowledge of ways language can be used continually develops
over time.
- Memory
- Retaining and recalling information.
- Ability changes over the lifespan
- Can decline in the latter parts of adulthood
- Creativity and imagination
- Thinking in new ways
- Developed through exposure to different experiences.
- E.g. books, movies, music and other people.