Intelligence tests

assignments receiving A’s, he wonders why some of his classmates struggled with the material, and his parents told him that he had a special gift. In the seventh grade, however, Jonathan suddenly lost interest in school, refusing to do homework or study for test (Dweck, 2006). His grades dropped, and his parents tried everything to boost their son’s confidence by assuring him that he was smart. But their attempts failed to motivate Jonathan (who is composite drawn from several children) (Dweck,…

Cognitive development of the human brain has been a source of interest for generations of educators, researchers, and psychologists. The Stanford Binet Intelligence Quotient was used in the early 1900s. Behaviorists, John Watson and B.F. Skinner, began to study children and hypothesized that children were impressionable and transformable. These researchers believed that through reward of good behavior and discouragement of unacceptable behavior a child’s environment would shape the learning…

In the article, “Culture, Not Race Explains Human Diversity” by Mark Nathan Cohen, Cohen elucidates the concept of races not existing and that there is an additional in-depth understanding needed to teach students the correct perspective to a non-racist view when classifying humans. He goes on to explain that us humans differ in a multitude of ways and cannot be simply classified or interpreted by the general standards that are usually set. Looking into the science behind it, he continues to…

The world today if filled with a vast amount of complex technologies that previous generations did not have access to. This is called the information age, and depending on a person’s viewpoint, it is either proclaimed the greatest revolution in the expansion and distribution of knowledge, or ridiculed for creating a harmful environment with too many distractions. Critics of the information age agree with the latter and have extended that statement to claim that “those under age thirty constitute…

Intelligence versus Happiness The ability to apply and acquire knowledge and skills versus a feeling of pleasure or showing contentment. Charlie Gordon is a 32- year- old science fiction character by Daniel Keyes in his novel Flowers for Algernon. Charlie was born with a brain disability where he can’t comprehend things. He had lots of life troubles when he was a kid. When he grew up and became an adult, his dream was to become “smart”. So, he volunteered to be a…

Human intelligence is the intellectual abilities of humans, marked by high cognition, motivation, and self-awareness (Tirri & Nokelainen, 2011). Intelligence allows humans to apply cognitive abilities to many different functions such as learning, communicating, reasoning and it also enables humans to experience and think (Solomon et al., 2015). Humans have relatively large brains, approximately three times larger than those of their closest primate relatives, and possess cognitive skills not…

I have read a few books that have significantly shifted my view of the world. Some of these books are prestigious--like Plato’s The Republic and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird--and some less so--for example, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible. In the past few months, I have added Technopoly by Neil Postman to that list. While this text may not be the most well-known of Postman’s novels, the ideas and arguments he presents within it are in some ways more disturbing than those in the…

perceives the word “intelligent” as too generalized, and goes to compose his own definition: where intelligence is the ability to provide responses and to be able to adapt to unexpected situations. Because humans possess these traits, we have intelligence, in contrast to machines (such as can-openers). The difference between humans and these machines are found further in his definition of “intelligence”, where intelligent creatures are information-sensitive creatures. Information-intelligent…

the children to spend most of the time in playing. Today, the children in the kindergartens/preschool are taught like the pupils in the primary school, the teaching includes testing on the mathematical skills and even the literacy. The standardized tests are good for every learning person, however, they are not well with small kids as young as three years who are still on the verge of child development that should happen through learning by playing with different toys. There are so many benefits…

There are various opinions on many different topics, such as on new ways of learning. In the articles "Preparing Students for the New Reality" by Donald Miller S. and Thomas Slocombe E., "Mind Over Mass Media" written by Steven Pinker, and "Blue Collar Brilliance" by Mike Rose all share ideas and that are similar about learning, but have different perspectives of how to learn. Much agreement exists regarding different ways of learning, and is connected through experience, difference in teaching,…