Intelligence quotient

Does Standardized Testing Accurately Test Intelligence? Standardized tests, such as the ACT or the American College Test, have been around for quite sometime; however, its importance is often questioned. In the last decade, more than half of U.S. colleges required ACT scores for prospective students to even have their applications reviewed (“How Many Colleges Are There In America” 1). Standardized testing may appear to benefit students, but it also promotes nothing but hardships to…

The Wechsler Intelligence Scales The further development was an instrument to measure Intelligence by American psychologist David Wechsler. Wechsler also believed that intelligence involved a no. of different mental abilities, describing intelligence as, "the global capacity of a person to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment" (1939). He wasn’t satisfied with the limitations of the Stanford Binet’s test, so he published his new intelligence test…

Intelligence Discrepancies in Criminals and Delinquents It has long been discussed that IQ, or intelligence quotient, is responsible for how well we perform intellectually. Some have argued that it is insignificant, but arguments of its irrelevance are old and have little evidence. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Hocus Pocus, he presents the idea that the prisoners at a nearby correctional facility are more intelligent than the students at a university. As interesting as this may seem, this situation is…

In our society today, believe or not there are many subjects that persuade people on how they view themselves, and their general surroundings. The news reports numerous stories and some of those are fake news, but there are stories that are true. A debate that the news and people are discussing is marijuana use. Some news will criticize it with fake discussions, and others praise it with facts. Marijuana has been around for a long time, and several people are split on whether it is harmful to a…

The article Women who drink organic milk in pregnancy could harm their baby’s IQ is regarding women who drink organic milk during pregnancy and the effects of the organic milk on their babies’ intelligence later in life (around the ages of nine and ten.) Studies have shown that women who drink organic milk have a sixty percent higher risk of lowering their child’s scores on test, this will also continue throughout a child’s education, even into the adulthood of the child. The title of Organic…

"How does Genetics and the Environment affect intelligence?" After a study done between adopted children, identical and fraternal twins by Jack S. Kaplan, a Professor at Quinnipiac University, he determines environmental factors are as influential as genetics in children. Intelligence quotients in twins are quite similar which proves heredity influences intelligence, while the environment factor has been know to show increase in their Intelligence quotients. Both of these factors should be…

Intelligence, according to British psychologist Charles Spearman, is general cognitive ability that could be measured and numerically expressed. There has been a presentable amount of research done to prove the relationship between one’s intelligence and how it affects their workplace achievements as well as academic achievements. Similarly, students’ achievements in their classrooms are also thought to be in direct relation to their intelligence. So, what of students who face various learning…

an interesting read. Intelligence is a difference factor that can be operationally defined and measured. However, I was shocked not to read anything about the Flynn Effect. I would expect for that to be mentioned somewhere in the article. Considering that intelligence is the most studied subject in psychology and it is likely the best understood construct. The article brought up and interesting and controversy topics such as the gap in race regarding scoring on intelligence testing. There is a…

specifics from our textbook to experiences I have had while helping at Younglife’s Capernaum camp, for special needs individuals. I was surprised to read in our textbook that limited intellectual ability is defined as a score of 70 or less on intelligence testing. The Capernaum camp experience is for anyone with a disability, whether physical or intellectual, and the range of issues spans greatly when we are at camp, because so many regional groups come during the same period of time. A couple…

mostly European their experiment would become very subject in finding out why and how white people were far superior to everyone else and in some case how Nordic people were better then everyone south of them. Over year everyone of the way they test intelligence was proving wrong and a new way was discover. It was not until Alfred Binet, H.H. Goddard, Lewis M. Terman, and lastly R.M Yerkes. These people used a new way to test intelligent that didn’t involve measure human body parts, but they…