Intelligence
Intelligence is not being educated, successful, or even being smart. You don’t have to have endless knowledge to be intelligent. Intelligence is having the ability and being capable of acquiring and applying knowledge and skills. A person’s intelligence can be measured by an IQ (Intelligence Quotient) test. An IQ test measures a person’s mental performance in fluid intelligence, memory, processing speed, and quantitative reasoning. An Intelligence Quotient is a number representing a person’s reasoning ability compared to the statistical average for their age. The most common and most accurate IQ tests are the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Stanford-Binet ...view middle of the document...
A question commonly asked by people is “Can your IQ change over time?” Many people argue that it does not, but studies show that your IQ does, in fact, change as you get older. An article in the journal, Nature, by psychologist, Price and her colleagues is a good example. Her study started with thirty-three adolescents that were twelve to sixteen years old. Price and her team gave all of them an IQ test, tracked them for four years, and then gave them the same IQ test again. The scores increased drastically by as much as twenty points. Your brain changes and develops as you get older, allowing you to obtain and understand more knowledge, and also changing how you solve problems, therefore causing your IQ to increase.
Is a person’s intelligence genetic or affected by their environment? Well, the answer is both. IQ is about fifty percent inheritable, but environment also plays a large part in reaching your full potential. If you were to put a child with extreme intellectual potential in an environment where they are raised in a good home with...
