Saturday 8th April 2006

9.00 Session III:
The manifestations of intelligence
Reasoning was often considered the form most representative of human intelligence. Based on this motive, the errors of reasoning were often commended as a manifestation of the limits of human intelligence. Overturning this logic, the first report will illustrate how such errors constitute an example of important intellective operations. The second report, parting from the Piagetian tradition in the study of the evolution of the ability to think, will illustrate how the study of intellective development can be more inclusive by utilizing a perspective that considers the whole arc of life and makes reference also to the modern cognitive concepts

G. Mosconi - University of Milan - Bicocca
"Human thought and rationality"

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00
A. De Ribaupierre - University of Geneva (CH)
"The nature of intelligence and its development"



13.00 Lunch

The tendency to isolate the study of intelligence from the complex psychic functionality of a person proves to be insufficient. The Session will illustrate how the intellective operations enter into the relationship not only with a wide gamut of cognitive processes, but also with a series of metacognitive factors, emotional and motivational.
In particular, the first report will illustrate the limits imposed on the mental capacities from the presence of emotional and social pressures, and the second report will illustrate how the representations that a person (for example, a student) has in his mind, and in particular in his intelligence, can influence the use of the intellective structures.

R. Engle - Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
"Working memory capacity and intelligent behavior,
cognition, and emotion"

15.00
00 R. De Beni - University of Padua
"Autoperception of intelligence and ingenuous theories.
Implications for motivation of study."

18.30 Conclusion of the Seminar.