Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence (1977, 1985, 1995) subsumes both Spearman s and g and underlying information processing components. His Triarchic theory includes three facets or sub theories:

• Analytical (componential)
• Creative (experiential)
• Practical (contextual)

Componential	Experiential	Practical
Ability to think abstractly, process information effectively	Intelligence: Ability to formulate new ideas, to combine seemingly unrelated facts or information.	Common sense, “street smarts,” Ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions & to shape the environment so as to maximize ones strengths & compensate for one’s weaknesses.
Analyze	Create	Apply
Critique	Invent	Use
Judge	Discover	Put into practice
Compare/Contrast	Imagine if…	Implement
Evaluate	Suppose that	Employ
Assess	Predict	Render Practical

A.     Analytical Thinking 

        i.            METACOMPONENTS – Control, monitor and evaluate cognitive processing.

      ii.            PERFORMANCE – Execute strategies assembled by the metacomponents. They are the basic operations involved in any cognitive act.

    iii.             KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION – Are the process used in gaining and storing new knowledge.

B.     Creative thinking 

        i.            NOVELTY - situation that you have never experienced.

      ii.             AUTOMATION – has been performed multiple times and can now be done with little or more extra thoughts.

C.     Practical Thinking 

        i.            ADAPTATION – Occurs when one makes a change within oneself in order to better adjust to one’s surroundings.

      ii.             SHAPING – Occurring when one’s changes their environment to better suit one’s needs.

    iii.            SELECTION – Replace the previous, unsatisfying undertaken when a completely new alternate environment is found to meet individual’s goals.