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Intelligence - Educ Psych
August 2, 2016
BS PSY 4-2
Educational Psychology
INTELLIGENCE
another, which only supports the claim that genes have very important job in
intelligence of an individual.
2. To what extent is intelligence stable?
As an individual grows, his/her knowledge acquired increases and
expanding. In each stage of human development, there are specific things
that someone may learn first before jumping to next stage where another
knowledge is going to be acquired. Intelligence is changing as an individual
adapts from the environment and learns fro the past experiences. It is only
stable on a specific stage or span of time until another information comes in
and stored in the memory that will help in increasing the knowledge and
improve the intelligence of a person. Through the interaction of genes and
the environment, an individuals intelligence may change, either upward or
downward movement depending on the factors present.
Cognition has to do with how a person understands the world and acts
in it. It is the set of mental abilities or processes that are part of nearly every
human action while we are awake. Cognitive abilities are brain-based skills
we need to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex. They
have more to do with the mechanisms of how we learn, remember, problemsolve, and pay attention, rather than with any actual knowledge.
Several researches have long held that females score higher on test of
verbal abilities than do males, but the males score higher on test of
mathematical skills and spatial skills. This is through these findings that
females were labeled to be expert in verbal performance and talking thats
why courses such as Mass Communication and Broadcasting are famous for
females. Males, on the other hand are expert when it comes to engineering,
problem solving and visual images and patterns.
5.
Using the findings of Howard Gardner and Joy Paul Guilford about
intelligence, it can be differentiated into different dimensions or types that
varies from different people. These dimensions or factors focused on specific
type of intelligence which an individual may possess or not. These factors
should all be considered and be given attention in order to improve and excel
more.
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