Intelligence
Intelligence is a very widely debated term in the exact meaning. This makes sense because it deals the inner workings of the human mind and thus has several connotations depending on how intelligent someone is perceived to be. Unlike other topics such as mathematics and science, which are more cut-and-dry, intelligence has the potential to hurt people and cause them to feel excluded. Also, people’s minds aren’t drawn in black and white. You can’t simply decipher what it means to be intelligent as you can solve for x in the equation x+4=5. There are simply way too many different possibilities and pieces to the intelligence puzzle.
Through all this confusion, there have been a few agreements of psychologists on the meaning of intelligence. …show more content…
Because of this, about fifty percent of savant individuals have autism spectrum disorder. The skills that are produced by the amazing savant abilities allow the person to find their personal niche in society whereas they might have been alone otherwise, and sometimes even help the people connect better in other ways as well through having one link to connect them to the rest of the world. The very term “Savant” is actually derived from the French phrase “To know,” and came to stand for “knowledgeable person” when it was first used in 1887 to describe patients in an asylum. This syndrome used to be thought to affect people with IQs under twenty-five, but is now known to mostly affect people with IQs of forty or higher. …show more content…
One characteristic that does persist through all savants is that they all have prodigious (extraordinary and adhesive) memory in the subject that they specialize in. They can remember seemingly impossible items, such as piano solos or the names of books that they have read in ways that nobody else could even fathom of doing. It is thought to be memory formed by habit, or non-semantic memory. This means that their skills are often in their procedural memory where most people would keep facts such as how to tie their shoes or how to brush their teeth. Because of this, the tasks that they do are done unthinkingly and come as easily to them as such tasks as tying our shoes would come to us. As far as memory, this means that in the one subject of their talent savants can remember anything and everything. As far as other subjects are concerned, they might not really be able to remember anything due to their mental issues.
Intelligence is a very widely debated term in the exact meaning. This makes sense because it deals the inner workings of the human mind and thus has several connotations depending on how intelligent someone is perceived to be. Unlike other topics such as mathematics and science, which are more cut-and-dry, intelligence has the potential to hurt people and cause them to feel excluded. Also, people’s minds aren’t drawn in black and white. You can’t simply decipher what it means to be intelligent as you can solve for x in the equation x+4=5. There are simply way too many different possibilities and pieces to the intelligence puzzle.
Through all this confusion, there have been a few agreements of psychologists on the meaning of intelligence. …show more content…
Because of this, about fifty percent of savant individuals have autism spectrum disorder. The skills that are produced by the amazing savant abilities allow the person to find their personal niche in society whereas they might have been alone otherwise, and sometimes even help the people connect better in other ways as well through having one link to connect them to the rest of the world. The very term “Savant” is actually derived from the French phrase “To know,” and came to stand for “knowledgeable person” when it was first used in 1887 to describe patients in an asylum. This syndrome used to be thought to affect people with IQs under twenty-five, but is now known to mostly affect people with IQs of forty or higher. …show more content…
One characteristic that does persist through all savants is that they all have prodigious (extraordinary and adhesive) memory in the subject that they specialize in. They can remember seemingly impossible items, such as piano solos or the names of books that they have read in ways that nobody else could even fathom of doing. It is thought to be memory formed by habit, or non-semantic memory. This means that their skills are often in their procedural memory where most people would keep facts such as how to tie their shoes or how to brush their teeth. Because of this, the tasks that they do are done unthinkingly and come as easily to them as such tasks as tying our shoes would come to us. As far as memory, this means that in the one subject of their talent savants can remember anything and everything. As far as other subjects are concerned, they might not really be able to remember anything due to their mental issues.