Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and…Part 2: Parts of Personality
Look Smart
Theme and Variation on
Topic 6. Mental Abilities and Navigating the World
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Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and…Part 2: Parts of Personality
Example of Concrete Thinking
Nigel Hunt (Selection 2) • So it's hallo! Welcome to my first good attempt in making
this book and Douglas Hunt is assisting me. I had a royal honour in coming to London to see Mrs. Garrett at the Claridges Hotel and the flags were out for me and I saluted my own colour. I was educated at many places; at Longfield Primary School, Inellan School, Pinner, and at my father's school, Atholl School.
• I have my own typewriter and I taught myself to type. When I went to London many years ago I made a film with Prof. Penrose looking at my palms. [One sign of Trisomy-21is a particular pattern in the palm] I also smiled at the camera, and he says it will go to America, and I hope you have seen it. (cont.)
Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and…Part 2: Parts of Personality
Example of Concrete Thinking
• Recalling Nigel Hunt (Selection 3) • My mother has been so kind tome all my life. My mother
taught me to read. When I was very tiny we used to play together with plastic letters and a book with huge letters in it. I learnt the sounds of the letters from my mother as we played.
• After I had learned the sound of every letter mother held things up and sound-spelt them like "This is a C-U-P" and soon I could do it all by myself; all our friends were amazed and pleased with me when I began to read properly from books.
• My mother used to read to me and she would read all the way through and the title of the book was "Alaplied" which I said every time my mother came up. [This was actually "he replied". It was not the title of the book.]
Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and…Part 2: Parts of Personality
Example of Concrete Thinking
Hunt (Selection 6) • One day I was taught good English from Mr. Hunt and
then came the periods. Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on; when I went there I became independent and polite to all the boys. Then we had two French teachers.
Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and…Part 2: Parts of Personality
Example of Abstract Reasoning
As to what you say respecting your soon having the happiness of seeing us all, I wish an accomplishment of your hopes, provided they are concomitant with your welfare, otherwise not... To confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune, etc., condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment; nor do I desire it; but I mean to preface the way for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may justly be said to build castles in the air; my folly makes me ashamed, and I beg you'll conceal it; yet Neddy, we have seen such schemes successful when the projector is constant…[How old?]
Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and…Part 2: Parts of Personality
Example of Abstract Reasoning
• The previously quoted letter from Alexander Hamilton was written to a school friend when Hamilton was 12 years, 10 months old.
• Note– Virtuousity, developed style of writing– Excellent organization– Sustained theme (wanting greatness)– Application of intelligence to life planning
Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and…Part 2: Parts of Personality
How is IQ Expressed?
• John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): First Alban Government: Roman conquest in Italy. We know not any part, says Dionysius of Halicarnassus, of the History of Rome till the Sicilian invasions. Before that time, the country had not been entered by any foreign invader. After the expulsion of Sicilians, Iberian (?) kings reigned for several years; but in the time of Latinus, Aeneas, son of Venus and Anchises, came to Italy, and established a kingdom there called Albania. He then succeeded Latinus in the government, and engaged in the wars of Italy. The Rutuli, a people living near the sea, and extending along the Numicius up to the Lavinium, opposed him. However, Turnus their king was defeated and killed by Aeneas. Aeneas was killed soon after this. The war continued to be carried on chiefly against the Rutuli, to the time of Romulus, the first king of Rome. By him it was that Rome was built.
Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and…Part 2: Parts of Personality
John Stuart Mill (Cont.)
• Educated at home– Learned Greek at 3– Read Plato with understanding at 7– At 8 studied Latin– Also at 8, covered geometry and algebra– At 9, conic sections, spherics, and Newton’s arithmetic– Of his math, it was said, “He performed all problems
without the book and most of them without any help from the book.”
Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and…Part 2: Parts of Personality
Focus on Hot Intelligences and Creativity
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