Human Growth and Development / Unit 18 HGD 2582 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Intelligence Is
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The idea
Intelligence is broadly the ability to adapt to the world, in Sternberg's description, entry 0926, and Spearman proposed a general ability, g, underlying performance across tasks, entry 0929.
In practice
Binet and Simon seeing children who did well on one task do well on others, entry 0929.
Where people slip
Whether intelligence is one ability or several is the question the next entries take up.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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