Compare And Contrast Intelligence Test

Intelligence tests are usually based on cognitive skills and learning that are needed in a Western society in order to succeed both in an educational and occupational setting. Intelligence tests usually are formulated under a Western ideal of ‘clever’ and can not account for various other ways in which ‘clever’ might be idealized in other cultures. It also usually relies on strong verbal content and the products of western schooling. Behaviour or intellect surrounding certain subjects may not be considered in the intelligence test but may be crucial to a certain society (e.g. create herbal medicines, or navigate the open sea), thus emphasizing the unbefitting nature of intelligence tests when assessing intelligence in non-western cultures. Moreover, different societies may propose different solutions to the same problem, because they think about the same problem in very different ways and within the context of their culture.

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b) Provide an approach to remedy the challenges mentioned above.
One approach is to not base intelligence tests on the knowledge base of any culture; choose reasoning patterns that rather reflect …show more content…
Compare and contrast the value of the psychometric approach vs. the cognitive approach to intelligence.

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4. “Proponents of emotional intelligence point to the important adaptive advantages of emotional skills…”

a) Provide a definition for emotional intelligence, and

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognise and read one’s own, and others’, emotions accurately. The ability to not only read emotions accurately but to also respond to them properly, and to be able to regulate one’s own emotions as well to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately. It can be considered in four major components: perceiving emotions, using emotions to facilitate thoug, understanding emotions and managing emotions.

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b) Describe the adaptive advantages of emotional