A study for the Everyday Concept of Intelligence

这个项目的目的是研究日常生活中关于智力的概念。目前的研究要求日本和美国的大学生思考他们认识的两个非常聪明的人（男性和女性），以及一个不聪明的人。研究对象被要求对这三种行为特征中的每一种进行评分，看他/她是否符合32种行为特征的描述。区分智能和非智能目标以及男性和女性目标的项目被确定为每个文化。指出了几种文化差异。为了研究青少年的智力概念，研究人员要求被试（15岁）对行为特征项目进行评分。有相似的性别差异。对推断母亲情绪的能力进行了测试。它由9幅情景图组成。它暗示了智力和情感发展的尺度。通过视觉搜索实验研究了无风险条件和有风险条件对搜索策略的影响。

The purpose of this project was to examine the everyday concept of intelligence.1. The present study asked Japanese and American College students to think of 2 highly intelligent person they know (male and female), and a person who is not charactristically intelligent. Subjects were father asked to rate each of those three as to how he/she fits to each of 32 discriptions of behavioral characteristics. The items which distinguishes intelligent and unintelligent targets and male and female targets were identified for each culture. Several cultural differences were pointed out.2. To examine the concept of intelligence among the adolescence, the subjects(15 years old) were asked to rate the items of behavioral characteristics. There were similiar sex-differences.3. A test for the ability to infer mother's emotion was made. It is composed by 9 situational pictures. It suggests a scale of intellectual and emotional development.4. Visual search experiments were performed to investigate the effects of riskless and riskful conditions on the search strategies.