Intelligence quotient

A student’s academic intelligence really depends on how they do in school. Grades are a great way to show how smart a kid is. Intelligence is quite easy to measure when put to the test. At the moment there isn’t a test generated to test the full intelligence of one individual. Many people think that grades measure intelligence or that the IQ test does, but some people think otherwise. Intelligence comes in all different forms and can be on any subject. In school, intelligence is measured through…

Quoting Mr. Stephen Hawkins, “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”. Inspired by one of the greatest minds our universe has seen, I consider the ability to adapt to be a personal quality, a talent, an accomplishment, and an experience. Every time I look back at the struggling days when I came to the United States, I repeat Dr. Hawkins’ words in order to gain confidence and new forces to keep traveling this path full of exhausting obstacles. Coming from Cuba- a country that barely…

Many people go through life thinking that intelligence is static. Many think that people are simply born with certain skills; they either have them, or they don’t. After all, the only way to be smart, is to be born with it, right? Or is there more to it than that? It only makes sense that the brain, being like any muscle in the human body, would work identically to say, a bicep; the more you condition it, the more it will thrive, and the more it will expand. This is something I see time and time…

Running into The Storm Intelligence has been coveted and looked highly upon throughout history. On the contrary, many people would agree that being the opposite of bright is a misfortune. Nonetheless, all humans are programmed differently as a result of gene formation. Popular belief would say those with higher brainpower have an advantage and are able to utilize quick-wits to effortlessly maneuver their way through social encounters and into any career, resulting in the production of…

in the textbook begins the discussion on the where intelligence comes from by looking at the correlation of intelligence across family members. The results were ride ranging (with biological parents having a somewhat weak form correlation of .42 while identical twins in the same environment had a correlation of .86), but the conclusion remained the same: Genetics alone do not completely explain intelligence. If genetics don't explain intelligence alone, then it is important to look at what else…

Should humans tamper with something as complex as the mind? Changing the intelligence of a human being could result in numerous outcomes, many of them negative, and all of them leading to unhappiness. In Flowers for Algernon, an operation aiming to increase the IQ of humans has been tested on Charlie Gordon. However, this neurosurgery has only been tested on mice before, and with inconclusive and insufficient data, the outcome for Charlie is unknown. As result of the operation, for instance,…

When people think of intelligence they only think of how smart a human or animal is, but there are a lot of different concepts that go into intelligence. One concept of intelligence is the emotions humans and animals feel. Even though some people think that animals can feel different emotions, they can; one of those emotions is pain. In the jungle, rhesus monkeys will fight other monkeys and leave horrible wounds, and in response, the monkeys will scream from the pain. During mating season, the…

the crucial technique to be intelligent. Carol S. Dweck's article, "Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn (2008)”, asserts that the brain and intelligence are not fixed; they both change when you learn. Dweck’s overall argument, is that a growth mindset coupled with proper motivation, is the key to developing intelligence, as well as being successful in life. She emphasizes that different mindsets affect our confidence and motivation. As children, most of us are subjected to…

V. Natural Selection and Learning a. Value of the ability to learn The cultural intelligence model agrees with the following statements: (1) social learning is more efficient that individual learning and (2) animals prefer social learning (Castro & Toro, 2004; Laland 2004; van Schaik and Burkart, 2001). Individual learning was deemed to be more costly. Social learning allows the individual to save energy and time in trial and error learning and learn from the experience of others. This…

Define Intelligence Recently in my college composition class I read 2 articles that left me wondering “How do we learn?” On one hand I had “College the Easy Way” by Bob Herbert, saying how through advancement of skills such as critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing we increase our intelligence. Meanwhile, in the second article “Blue-collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose who says that our culture today separates the body from the mind and reinforces this idea by defining intelligence solely…