Outline The Theories Of Intelligence

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Theories of Intelligence

Introduction
The focus of this report is to outline the: definition of intelligence, cover Charles Spearman’s, Howard Gardner’s and Daniel Goleman’s theories of intelligence, as well as covering intelligence testing and the controversy over intelligence testing, as well as having a better understanding of intelligence and the history behind it.

Intelligence
Intelligence, The ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations, (Merriam-Webster), is a muchly debated and historically controversial subject with no true definition as of yet, though intelligence is closely related to cognition. Many believe intelligence to be how smart a person is, or how quickly they can interpret data. Cognition …show more content…

General intelligence (or as he referred to it, the g factor) which underlies the development of all other mental abilities, and specific intelligence (or as he referred to it, the s factor), which measures abilities specific to a test. Strengths of this are that many researchers to this day still use Spearman’s form of testing in their studies, but also adding their own concepts to the study. Weaknesses are, that it is an old theory so it has limitations and is missing content that has been researched in recent years, as well as this, it doesn’t measure all of the abilities of a person such as musical …show more content…

Binet and Simon were both French psychologists, and they developed the first intelligence test and developed the Binet-Simon scale, this scale is one of the most used scales for measuring intelligence. The Binet-Simon scale was a scale for their test, the Binet-Simon test, which was the first IQ test, this was done during 1908-1911. This scale was later revised by Terman, an American psychologist at Stanford University, later becoming known as the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale. A persons’ IQ is measured by dividing the participant's mental age and then their chronological age, based on test their score on an IQ test, then multiplying this number by 100, giving their

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