What is Intelligence ?

• Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
• Intelligence is the capacity to understand and world and the resourcefulness to cope with its challenge.
• Intelligence refers to individual’s ability
  • To understand complex ideas
  • To adapt effectively to the environment
  • To learn from experience
  • To engage in various forms of reasoning
  • To overcome obstacle by careful thought

Intelligence is Unitary or Multifaceted : Intelligence is unitary characteristic or dimension along which people vary. Spearman (1927) believed that performance on any cognitive task depend on a primary general factor and more specific factors relating to particular task. Intelligence is composed of seperate abilities that operate more or less independently. According to the multiface view, can be high on some components of intelligence but low on others. Thurston (1983) suggests that intelligence is composed of seven distinct primary mental abilities like verbal meaning number and space.

Gardener’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence: Seven distinct type of intelligence that are independent and each operate seprate module in brain:

• Linguistic Intelligence
• Musical Intelligence
• Logical-mathematical Inelligence
• Spatial Intelligence
• Bodly Kinesthetic Intelligence
• Intrapersonal Intelligence
• Interpersonal Intelligence

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