Faculty of education university of sindh, Pakistan
Concept of Intelligence
Introduction :
Intelligence has been defined in many ways, including the capacity of logic, understanding, self awareness, learning , emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning ,creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving.
Definition:
“The ability to use memory, knowledge,experience, understanding, reasoning and judgement in order to solve problems and adopt to new situations.”
“The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.”
Psychologist Definition:
” The ability to plan and structure one’s behavior with an end a view.”
“The capacity to learn or to profit by experience.”
Types of intelligence:
Concept of intelligence:
One of the most important single variable, which effect schooling , is intelligence . Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge. Success in school and college and in one’s own proffection, social adjustment, possession of general information etc. Are all associate with the concept of “intelligence”. The word intelligence is derived from the Latin verb ‘intellegere’ which mean understanding.
According to Alfred Binet intelligence is the ability of judgment or common sense. According to david wechsler ‘ the global capacity to think rationally , act purposefully , and deal with the effectively with the environment.’
Conclusion:
In simple words , intelligence is nothing but thinking skills and the ability to adopt to and to learn from
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