Testing Instruments are used to test Intelligence Quotient or personality tests to evaluate past-acquired competencies or future success in education or employment. A close examination and study of human cognition based on biological and anthropological evidence such as plasticity of brain we may have to include more universal set of competencies than ordinarily been considered such as verbal, mathematical and logical competencies. This paper attempts to address issues relating to definition of intelligence, its components and application of study for educational testing and selection process.

1. An Analytical Study on Assessing Human Competencies Based on Tests Presentation by Prof.K.Prabhakar, KSR College of Technology [email_address]

21. Investigators of human intelligence work with two styles of Explanation Reductionist View It assumes that brain like machine Is being merely an assemblage of parts, thus can be explained in terms of many parts. Holistic View Holists view brain as a coherent Whole, a general framework of Connections that shapes the Mental patterns. Behaviorists treated the brain as a giant collection of reflexes. They considered thought as a knee-jerk sequence of associative links. If we are shown red color reflexively we think of fire Engines or traffic signals. Gestalt Psychologists treated brain thinks in wholes before extracting parts. Thus brain seizes on a general thought, forming a broad sense of which direction to head, before doing more work to bring this thought to specific focus .