3. WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE?
Intelligence is a
capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar form
s of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships,
facts ,meanings, etc.
In short the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
4. DAVID WECHSLER:
“Intelligence is the global capacity of the individual to act
purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with
his environment”
Linda gottfredson:
“Intelligence is the ability to deal with cognitive
complexity”
Cyril Burt
“Innate general cognitive ability”
6. THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE:
Spearman’s theory
Primary mental theory
Multiple intelligence theory
Tragic theory of intelligence
Guilford theory of intelligence
Cattell theory of intelligence
14. CONCLUSION:
The concept of intelligence has been one of the most
contentious in psychology, with controversy spanning the
lifetime of the research area . The most controversial claims
have come from certain scientists that intelligence varies
between races , giving some races the right to govern over
others . Regardless of the way in which intelligence is defined
or measured, human beings have great intellectual abilities , to
think, reason ,and understand the world in which we live, the
way other people think and act, and to understand ourselves ,
As we advance in our development as individual and
collectively as a species, recognizing and appreciating the
diversity that is contained within this concept may be more
valuable than trying to ascertain how to quantify it .
