Human Growth and Development / Unit 7 HGD 0926 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Intelligence Is
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The idea
Intelligence, broadly, is the ability to adapt to the world, including creativity, problem-solving, abstract reasoning and learning, in Sternberg's description.
In practice
A child working out a new game's rules without instructions, adapting to something unfamiliar.
Where people slip
Unit one's reaction range applies: genes set a range, and environment decides where within it a child's ability falls.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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