Quotient

capacity to understand the world, think with rationality, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges (Wechsler, 1975). Many psychologists have tried to define intelligence in their own words and develop tests to measure the intelligence quotient (IQ). These tests can lead to positive and negative outcomes. In the beginning, Alfred Binet created the first IQ test to identify students that might need special instruction in Paris. The mental age of the student was calculated…

What is intelligence? Is it Intelligence Quotient measures or “common sense”, “street knowledge”, even “the ability to process information properly”. Intelligence not only means being intelligent in a single way, but being intelligent in multiple ways. The works of Howard Gardner and Gerald Graff both elaborate on what it is to be intelligent and how the school system should encourage or make available different strategies for students to truly succeed in school and in life. Although Gerald…

Hidden Figures is a biography film about an African American women mathematician Katherine Johnson, and her colleagues Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. It is about the challenges they faced while working at NASA during the time of the space race. Katherine Johnson was a widowed mother of three who works most of her time and struggles to be the first African American in her department at NASA. Dorothy Vaughan is a wife and mother who does supervisor work but does not get promoted to supervisor…

success or failure. Developing good social skills, proper-self management, strong self-awareness and social awareness is an important factor in developing a high level of emotional intelligence. One’s level of emotional intelligence and intelligence quotient are not greatly related to each other, but the two need each other in order for a person to use his/her emotions in a proper way and to help him/her build a…

In Harvey Deutschendorf’s book, The Other Kind of Smart, he begins with an introduction talking about the differences between intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EI) and how they can affect people's future careers. There’s an anecdote that Deutschendorf tells, about two Yale graduates with different IQs and EIs. One of the Yale graduates was incredibly brilliant in terms of academics, but when he was interviewing for jobs, he only got called back by a “second-rate company…

development. Nature and nurture hold a close relationship where without the other, each on its own, is not capable of providing empirical evidence for development itself. Genetics and the environment work alongside to shape children’s intelligence quotients (IQs) where factors such as: schooling quality, parental education and birth weight highly contribute to the changes in the IQ of individuals (Pacheco, Hedges, Schilling, & Morton, 2013). Teratogens such as the nicotine chemical found in…

Intelligence tests can be defined as formats meant to measure intelligence. This can be in form of exercises that test verbal knowledge, ability and performance. The scores achieved in the intelligence tests may be considered as an IQ (intelligence quotient) which the division of the mental age by the number of years the individual has lived. What do they measure According to Raven ( ), intelligence tests measure the ability to simplify things that are not easy to understand and features of…

Correspondingly, my Critical Annotation of the book entitled “Appraisal Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals” was focused on testing and assessments used in helping professions. The construct of intelligence is largely focused on “individual differences in mental ability” (Drummond, 2004, p. 124) and has over the years had several models postulated in an attempt to theorize its facets. Some of the more prominent models purported includes Thurstone’s Multifactor theory, Vernon’s…

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 strongly considered when speaking about intelligence. Kaplan's study began with three individuals studies specializing in,…

Each one of the tests were very different, from how they were formatted to what their purpose is and what my results ended up being. All of the tests took place online, The first one I took was from free-iqtest.net. There was no time limit on answering the questions, it consisted of only about twenty questions, which when reflected on were not very difficult. I was able to complete the test in about fifteen minuets, because it was not timed I felt fairly confident that I had done well and my…