THE BEST THEORY FOR DETERMINING INTELLIGENCE
THE BEST THEORY FOR DETERMINING INTELLIGENCE.
Jonas A, Boateng
Grand Canyon University
THE BEST THEORY FOR DETERMINING INTELLIGENCE.
Intelligence can identified as a holistic ability of a person to function effectively and clearly minded in his or her environment. This can be further broken down as holistic in the sense that the individual ability can be seen in one or more aspect of these fields such as social, political, economics, religion, marriage, education, music and sports. For instance, as smart people are people, who are exiled in any of these fields. Besides, effectively function means one’s ability to use both inductive reason and deductive reason to judge or draw conclusion. In other words, the theories and facts to support your reason, and which one will be true based on what you already know respectively? However, there are several ways intelligence can be measured, ranging from traditional IQ or intelligence quotient, the Stanford-Binet, and the Wechsler intelligence scale, Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of intelligence [the information processing approach], and Howard Gardener theory of multiple intelligence Sontrack(2008, p. 295) I personally believed that Howard Gardener multiple should be the best theory for measuring intelligence. The other theories basically focus mainly on nature or nurture. In other words sole base on academic performance or cultural issues. I think for intelligence to be effectively measured and function, it should be under the auspices of these two issues nature-nurture correlation. It was this view that, Gardner introduces eight distinct criteria for measuring intelligence, which cut across all the aspect of
Jonas A, Boateng
Grand Canyon University
THE BEST THEORY FOR DETERMINING INTELLIGENCE.
Intelligence can identified as a holistic ability of a person to function effectively and clearly minded in his or her environment. This can be further broken down as holistic in the sense that the individual ability can be seen in one or more aspect of these fields such as social, political, economics, religion, marriage, education, music and sports. For instance, as smart people are people, who are exiled in any of these fields. Besides, effectively function means one’s ability to use both inductive reason and deductive reason to judge or draw conclusion. In other words, the theories and facts to support your reason, and which one will be true based on what you already know respectively? However, there are several ways intelligence can be measured, ranging from traditional IQ or intelligence quotient, the Stanford-Binet, and the Wechsler intelligence scale, Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of intelligence [the information processing approach], and Howard Gardener theory of multiple intelligence Sontrack(2008, p. 295) I personally believed that Howard Gardener multiple should be the best theory for measuring intelligence. The other theories basically focus mainly on nature or nurture. In other words sole base on academic performance or cultural issues. I think for intelligence to be effectively measured and function, it should be under the auspices of these two issues nature-nurture correlation. It was this view that, Gardner introduces eight distinct criteria for measuring intelligence, which cut across all the aspect of
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