ABSTRACT
Theory-based approaches to teaching intelligence start with a theory of intelligence, and then derive the training program from that theory. J. Sternberg and J. S. Powell have proposed a theory of how people learn words from context, and the unit of Intelligence Applied dealing with knowledge acquisition focuses upon the skills involved in learning words from context. Context cues are kinds of information to which the knowledge-acquisition components can be applied. According to the theory, three general processes are involved: knowledge-acquisition components, use of these components on context cues, and effective handling of mediating variables that render application of the components to the cues more or less difficult. The Intelligence Applied program is based on a validated theory of human intelligence specifying components of intelligence, the experiential base upon which these components operate, and the functions to which these processes apply, through experience, in the everyday world.
