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In this essay I will look at whether intelligence can be defined and
measured accurately through looking at various definitions of
intelligence; including definitions from Binet, Wechsler, Terman,
Hebbs, Cattel and Vernon. I will discuss a selection of more well
known and popular intelligence tests ranging from Galton to Wechsler,
what they measure and what they don’t measure. I will look at an
example of a famous person renowned for being intelligent and what
there IQ test result would likely of been, if tested.
Starting with a definition from the oxford dictionary we can then go
on to see how varied the definitions of intelligence can be.
Intelligence, meaning “the mental ability the power of learning and
understanding” (Hawkins, 1988).
In 1905 Binet suggested that intelligence is the ability to
comprehend, judge and reason well (1905, cited in P, Smith et al,
2003) and Wechsler describes intelligence along a similar line
agreeing that the ability to adapt to circumstances and rational
thinking are part of intelligence (cited in Gross, 1992).
Three definitions that follow a similar line, the first being from
Piaget who sees intelligence as an ongoing process of learning,
organising, developing and adapting to situations (Pyle, 1979). The
definition from Hebb is that it has two meanings, one being “an
innate potential, the capacity for development, a fully innate
property that amounts to the possession of a good brain & a good
neural metabolism”(cited in Heim, 1970, p24) the second meaning is,
the functioning of the brain which has developed with the infl...
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