Title: Intelligence: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives
Abstract: This article presents historical and conceptual perspectives on human intelligence. It opens with a brief account of what intelligence is. Essentially, intelligence is viewed as the ability to implement goal-directed adaptive behavior. Then the article discusses major theories of intelligence. First, it describes implicit theories, or what also are called "folk theories" that laypeople hold regarding the nature of intelligence. Then it discusses in turn psychometric, cognitive, biological, and cognitive-contextual theories of intelligence. Next it covers the development of intelligence. And finally it reviews the measurement of intelligence.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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