The society promotes this idea that a person of color can never be at same or more intellectual level as a white person. The stereotype is that a white person is the most intelligent out of all the other races. This is to ensure that white people dominate the society and hold all the important positions in the society. Intelligence has been one of the most interesting areas of research in education and the human brain is still considered as a black box. Women are better than men in specific areas of intelligence. Intelligence and genetics are falsely used to support the idea that race is something that gives some people power over the others.
In the traditional sense, intelligence has generally had the connotation of mathematical-logical intelligence. This changed after 1983, when after years of research the multiple intelligence (MI) theory was proposed by a Harvard psychologist, Howard Gardner. In his MI theory, he differentiated seven types of intelligences as follows: logical-mathematical intelligence, verbal-linguistic intelligence, musical-rhythmic intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and intrapersonal intelligence.
Women are better on verbal and linguistics while men are more logical. Menevis says that “it is possible to say that female students tend to use both sides of their brain, with dominance to right side and this pattern of use causes the significant differences we found for verbal-linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist intelligences in favor of the girls in our society”(Social Behavior & Personality,16). According to the theory of left-brain or right-brain dominance, each side of the brain controls di...
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For starters I do believe that some of it has to do with geography and I also believe that intelligence is from opportunity. I feel like Jared diamond had completely left out that race was a large factor into the equation. When an entire race of people were deprived from education and precious opportunity. It also makes it harder for a certain race in the world to succeed In a system that was always put against blacks and other minorities. I feel that the races didn’t get to have an
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... pressure for someone to live up to. Each person has his or her own level of understanding, and there are no proven statistics that show a connection between race and intelligence.
Yudell, M. (2011) A short history of the race concept. Race and the Genetic Revolution:
Human intelligence is an eel-like subject: slippery, difficult to grasp, and almost impossible to get straight [3]. Many scientist and psychologist have made numerous attempts to come up with an explanation for the development of human intelligence. For many years, there has been much controversy over what intelligence is and whether it is hereditary or nurtured by the environment. Webster's dictionary defines intelligence as "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge; which includes a sensing an environment and reaching conclusions about the state of that environment [7]. In this paper I am going to examine the factors, which make up ones intelligence. I will be investigating whether or not intelligence is fostered by genetic heritance or nurtured by ones environment.
Since intelligence is usually judged in IQ tests or just tests in school, many individuals are claimed to have average or little intelligence. They struggle in school, trying to learn math, English, reading; but they may excel in other places like sports, music, or relationships. This is where Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences comes into play. He proposed that there are eight forms of intelligence, possibly more. The two that are seen in school often are Logical-Mathematical and Linguistic-Verbal. The people who excel at these are seen as geniuses and are thought to do very well in life. The others that don’t do well in those two may be better at one of the other six.
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Loehlin, John C., Lindzey Gardner, and J.N. Spuhler. Race Differences in Intelligence. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1975.
According to Howard Gardner (1991), every individual is born with a certain intelligence or potential intelligence. It is unfair to teach and/or assess an individual with a standard guideline or benchmark. This is mainly because every individual possess a different intellectual strength and different kinds of mind that learn, perform and understand in a different ways which is difficult to be changed. If an individual cannot understand the way we communicate, we should communicate in the way they can understand. Howard Gardner (1983), in his Multiple Intelligence Theory, proposes that human intelligence has seven dimensions that should be acknowledged and developed by the encouragement of learning and self-development and
I believe the best theory for determining intelligence is the Theory of Multiple Intelligence & I believe I possess many different types of
The definition of intelligence becomes even more complicated when one considers the work of Howard Gardner. Gardner claims that intelligence can not be defined with one definition because intelligence is not one thing. Gardner purports that there are eight different categories of intelligence: musical, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. He is currently considering adding a ninth category of intelligence: existential (Carvin).
His multiple intelligences theory suggest that intelligence is divided into eight different categories: logical-mathematical, linguistic, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist each with their own individual characteristics (Woolfolk 116). After finishing Gardner’s assessment of my multiple intelligences, it was determined that my three highest intelligences (in order from most apparent to least apparent) are logical-mathematical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Logical-mathematical intelligence involves charting, sequencing, analyzing, proving, and interpreting data. Interpersonal intelligence involves cooperative grouping, tutoring, and giving feedback. Intrapersonal intelligence involves independent work, self-talk, using prior knowledge and connecting this prior knowledge to new knowledge
In 1983, Howard Gardner a Harvard professor proposed the theory that individual can have multiple ways of learning and processing information. The multiple intelligences consist of 9 different ways and these include: verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, existential, musical, naturalistic, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Every individual has a different amount of each intelligence but each intelligence is at a varying level. With the help of a multiple intelligences assessment, I found that my top three multiple intelligences are Intrapersonal, logical, and interpersonal. Within his research Gardner says that “Intrapersonal intelligence refers to people’s ability to recognize and assess those same characteristics
Furnham, A. 2001. Self-estimates of intelligence: culture and gender difference in self and other estimates of both general (g) and multiple intelligences. Personality and Individual Differences, 31, pp. 1381-1405.
Professor Bigot argues that intelligence is only influenced by nature, meaning it is entirely based in genetics, and that one's environment or surroundings can't influence it. However, Dr. Bigot's argument does have some truth to it. With the purpose of investigating the role of genetics in intelligence, researchers have approached twin studies. According to Bouchard and McGue (1981), the closer the biological relationship, the higher the IQ correlation is. This idea was the result of a meta-analysis of 111 studies of IQ correlations between siblings from research studies on intelligence. The Minnesota Twin Study (Bouchard et al. 1990) studies identical twins raised together and identical twins raised apart. Bouchard et al (1990) concluded that 70% of intelligence is associated to genetic inheritance. Therefore, 30% of intelligence may be attributed to other factors. Although the Minnesota Twin Study has been one of the most impressive twin studies carried out, there are several criticisms that test its validity. One of its greatest criticisms was the "equal environment assumption", which states that it can't be assumed that twins reared together are exposed to the same environment.