Endocrine System

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By Tricia Mitchell

WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? Intelligence is the cognitive abilities of

an individual to learn from experience, to reason well, and cope with the demands of daily living.

Or The ability to analyze, evaluate , and

compare Ability to create, imagine ,and invent Ability to apply, implement, and utilize

THEORIES In the early years the (g) base on mechanical,

musical, and artistic abilities by Charles Spearman

Some Psychologist think that there were other abilities, the Primary Mental Abilities to justify this theory (Howard Gardner)

ABILITIES

Linguistic Logical-mathematical Musical Spatial Kinesthetic Interpersonal Intrapersonal Naturalistic intelligence

FLUID AND CRYSTALLIZED INTELLIGENCE

Fluid intelligence is the ability to process information quickly and devise strategies to deal with the new problems(Hunt 1995)

Crystallized intelligence is the ability to use previously learned information and skills to solve familiar problems

GOOD CHARACTERISTIC Standardization-administer test the

same way to each individual Norms-used as basis of comparison for

scores on a test Objectivity-lack of subjectivity in a test

question so that same score is giving regardless

Reliability-a test ability to produce similar scores if test is administer on different occasion

Validity-the extent to which a test measures what it suppose to measure

CONCLUSION You only get out of the brain what you

put in it for intelligence

REFERENCE Chapter 9 in Benjamin Lahey,

Psychology: Introduction (10th) edition