A study for the Everyday Concept of Intelligence

这个项目的目的是检验智力的日常概念1。这项研究要求日本和美国的大学生想出他们认识的两个高智商的人(男性和女性)，以及一个没有个性智力的人。受试者被父亲要求对这三个人中的每一个人进行评分，看看他/她与32种行为特征的描述是否相符。为每种文化确定了区分智能和非智能目标以及男性和女性目标的项目。他们指出了几个文化差异。为了考察青春期青少年的智力概念，被试(15岁)被要求对行为特征项目进行评分。存在相似的性别差异。对推断母亲情绪的能力进行了测试。它由9张情景图片组成。它表明了智力和情感发展的一个量表。通过视觉搜索实验考察了无风险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.