Intelligence
What is intelligence?
How might intelligence be
demonstrated?
Definitions of Intelligence
• One's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding,
self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional
knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem
solving.
• Intelligence derives from the Latin verb intelligere, to
comprehend or perceive. A form of this verb, intellectus,
became the medieval technical term for understanding.
Definitions of Intelligence
• From "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" (1994), an
editorial statement by fifty-two researchers: A very
general mental capability that, among other things,
involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think
abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and
learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a
narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it
reflects a broader and deeper capability for
comprehending our surroundings, "catching on," "making
sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do.
Definitions of Intelligence
To my mind, a human intellectual competence must entail a
set of skills of problem solving, enabling the individual to
resolve genuine problems or difficulties that he or she
encounters and, when appropriate, to create an effective
product, and must also entail the potential for finding or
creating problems, and thereby laying the groundwork for the
acquisition of new knowledge.
Howard Gardner
Intelligence
Can intelligence be developed?
Extended Thinking.
The aim of these lessons is to develop and deepen
intelligence; to take that learning into all lessons
and into life.