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Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
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All of the studies we do in my group are quantified.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
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Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.
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Academic
Doe
Success In Life
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There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Great
Teacher
Great Teacher
Recipes
Unique
Them
Recipe
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I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Majors
Psychology
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There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
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Psychology
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You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
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Betrayal
Hate
Passion
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The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.
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Essentially
Technologies
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And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Creative
Order
Skills
Succeed
Life World Look
Changing
Fast
Life Look World
Later
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The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Essence
Knowing
Thinking
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Love
Work
Commitment
Intimacy
Passion
More
Develop
Fade
Gradually
Slowly
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I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Creative
Projects
Wells
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I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Kids
Courses
Formulas
Groups
Math
Statistics
Teach
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If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Jobs
Adapting
Changing Environment
Thinking
Creatively
Rapidly
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In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
In Other Words
Iq
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Test
Worse
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If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Anyway
Invest
Hurts
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So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Children
Concrete
Disability
Example
Learning Disability
For Example
Labeled
Potentially
Services
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But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Done
Esteem
Research
Self Esteem
Box
Psychologists
Test
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But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Teacher
Low Expectations
School
Stupid
Three
Teachers
Case
Low
Poorly
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Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Jobs
Dozen
Two
Lots
Correlate
First Of All
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Practical
Studies
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To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Spending
Almost All
Drop
None
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Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Ignorance
Missing
Practice
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The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Ability
Criticize
Theory
Three
Judge
Analytical
Apply
Create
Discover
Invent
Parts
Practical
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The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Dollars
Stupidity
Support
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If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Book
Sat
School
Sorry
Classes
Invest
Practical
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In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Compare
People Will New
Teachers
Unlike
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Theories
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And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Long
Looks
Materials
Population
Long Your Look
Factor
Finding
Hundreds
Wrong Thing
Restrict
Showing
Studies
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And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
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Privileged
Social Class
Positions
Test
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ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Admission
Blame
Country
Sat
Change Things
Companies
Economically
Graduate
Incentive
Lock
Parts
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In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
Robert Sternberg / Psychologist
Kids
Teacher
Ability
Teaching
Good Teacher May
Words
Conclude
Fact
Particularly
In Fact
Learn
Match
Teaches
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