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Intelligence

Intelligence is something that everyone thinks they can recognize but is famously hard to measure and even harder to define. In the late nineteenth century, several psychologists tried to find an objective measure to compare intelligence between people, leading to...

General vs. specific intelligence

Intelligence tests typically include an array of different types of mental tasks, testing various aspects of verbal, numerical, and spatial ability, involving multiple different cognitive processes, including short-term memory, knowledge, perception, and reasoning....

Is there more than one kind of intelligence?

Spearman’s 'general intelligence factor (g) influenced a particular British view of intelligence as one measurable, fixed quantity that is innate and can be seen in the ability to perform a variety of cognitive tasks. This idea has been expanded upon by Cyril Burt and...

Reinforcing cultural and racial prejudices

Research into intelligence, possibly more than any other area of psychology, has attracted criticism for being biased towards certain races, ethnicities, genders, and classes. The idea that intelligence is innate and genetic has fueled eugenics movements in past...

Fluid or crystallized?

A British-born psychology professor, Raymond Cattell, claimed that there are broadly two kinds of cognitive abilities - one that can be learned, known as crystallized intelligence, and another that cannot be taught, known as fluid intelligence. Fluid intelligence,...



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