The document discusses the concept of intelligence, tracing its origin to the Latin verb 'intellegere,' meaning understanding. It outlines various definitions and characteristics of intelligence, emphasizing its role in learning, adaptability, and problem-solving, as well as noting differences in intelligence development between genders. Additionally, it highlights the importance of both heredity and environment in shaping intelligence and delineates the distinctions between fluid and crystallized intelligence.

1. Intelligence
Prasanth P
Asst. Professor
GBCTE, Thalassery

2. ‘intellegere’
•The word intelligence is
derived from the Latin verb
‘intellegere’ which means
understanding.

3. • The concept of intelligence is an old
concept.
• Philosophers rely on the method of
observation in interpreting intelligence.
• They follow the method of self-
introspection during the thinking
processes or other mental activities

4. • In psychology, intelligence is a
mental quality that includes the
ability to think, learn from
experience, adapt to new
situations, apply knowledge and
solve challenges and problems.

5. • Intelligence is one of the qualities
that distinguish people from each
other and make one more
successful than the other.
• Everyone wants to be intelligent to
achieve what he wants.
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6. • One of the most important single variables,
which affect schooling, is intelligence.
• Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply
knowledge.
• Success in school and colleges and in one’s
own profession, social adjustment, possession
of general information etc. are all associated
with the concept of “intelligence”.

7. • Binet : intelligence is the ability
of an individual to direct his/her
behaviour towards a goal.
Intelligence – Meaning and
Definition

8. •Intelligence is the
ability to adapt to one’s
surroundings: Piaget

10. Wagnon
•Intelligence is the
capacity to learn and
adjust to relatively new
and changing conditions.

12. Wyatt
•Intelligence as an
ability of the mind to
apprehend relevant
relations.

14. David Wechsler
• Intelligence is the global
capacity of an individual to
act purposefully, to think
rationally, and to deal
effectively with his
environment.

15. Nature and
characteristics of
Intelligence

16. Intelligence is an innate natural
endowment of the child.

17. It is the ability to learn.

19. It helps the child in maximum
learning in minimum period of time.

20. The child is able to foresee the future
and plan accordingly.

21. The child is able to take advantage
of his/her previous experiences.

22. The child faces the future with
compliance

23. He / She develops a sense of
discrimination between right or wrong.

24. The developmental period of
intelligence is from birth to
adolescence.
• Intelligence grows during the
first five years of the child's life
rapidly, and then stops at the age
of sixteen to eighteen to twenty.

25. Consistency of IQ
• Intelligence may stop at the age of
sixteen to eighteen to twenty and
remain constant, and may increase
with the activity of the intellectual
person, and may decrease with
progress in time if a person stops
learning, and does not practice
intellectual activities.
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26. There is a minor difference in the
development of intelligence between
boys and girls.

27. • Males have larger brains than females, even
when corrected for body size, and brain size
is positively correlated with intelligence.
• This leads to the expectation that males
should have higher average levels of
intelligence than females

28. • Female subjects tend to perform
better on tests of verbal abilities and
processing speed while males tend to
perform better on tests of visual-
spatial ability and crystallised
intelligence.
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29. • For verbal fluency, females have
been specifically found to perform
slightly better, on average, in
vocabulary and reading
comprehension and significantly
higher in speech production and
essay writing.

30. • Males have been specifically found
to perform better, on average, in
spatial visualization, spatial
perception, and mental rotation.

31. • Fluid intelligence is the ability to
solve novel reasoning problems and
is correlated with a number of
important skills such as
comprehension, problem-solving,
and learning.

32. • Crystallized intelligence, on the other
hand, involves the ability
to deduce secondary relational
abstractions by applying previously
learned primary relational
abstractions

33. There are individual differences with
regard to the intelligence between
boys and girls.

35. Intelligence is mostly determined by
heredity but a suitable environment
necessary to improve it.

36. It is the ability to solve problems
• .

38. 3. Its the ability to deal with
abstraction

39. 4 .It is the ability to see relevant
relationships with object or idea

40. It is the ability to apply acquired
knowledge to new Situation

41. 6. Intelligence is excellence of
performance as manifested in any
work.
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42. 7. It is the analytic and synthetic
ability of mind.