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PSY 300 week 3 DQ 3

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DQ 3: Is there a “general intelligence” that can be measured by tests? If so, what might

be some of the things that you could use as test items that would tap into this general

form of intelligence that would not be overly affected by cultural matters? If not, why

not?

General Intelligence can be measured through various types of intelligence tests, also

known as IQ, Intelligence, Aptitude, Intellectual Ability, Capacity to Learn, Cognitive

Skills. General Intelligence is the ability to think about ideas, analyze situations, and

solve problems. IQ stands for intelligence quotient. Supposedly, it is a score that tells

one how 'bright" a person is compared to other people. During the 1920's journalist

Walter Lippmann maintained that IQ tests were nothing but a series of stunts. He

maintained that the term intelligence had never been adequately defined and

supposedly nobody knows what an IQ test is supposed to measure. He believed that

intelligence could not be measured without an adequate definition for the term. General

intelligence could be used as a good predictor of a child's current learning ability and

performance in school.

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I think overall there is in fact a general intelligence that can be measured by test. We

have all seen the info about the IQ test that some of us may or may not have taken in

the past. There are many test that can measure how weak or strong a persons thinking

skills are. The test in my opinion cant tell a person if they are not intelligence or not. I

think that these test are test of growing of what we all need to work on. Isn't that what at

test in general is al about. There are test and questionnaires that we may be able to fill

out to see if a person is a high risk of being bi-polar as well as manic depressant. Just

because a piece of paper says a person is something that the person is what that test

says according to scores and so on. If a person puts the test as the main focus and the

person taking the test is being true and honest about the answers then the test is going

to have a better outcome and have more meaning to it. If a person if taking an IQ test

and they are not putting all of their effort into it then the test is not going to be accurate.

We can take test all day long to determine how smart we are or what kind of person we

may be but its not going to really mean anything if the person taking the test if putting all

the effort into it and if the test taker does not have belief in the test. There are many

types of test some are timed and this test may have some math problems that you can

take to see how fast of a problem solver you are. When I was hired onto my company,

before being hired we had to take a test and we had to pass the test with a certain

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Week 3 DQ 3: Is there a "general intelligence" that can be measured by tests???If so, what might be some of the things that you could use as test items that would tap into this general form of intelligence that would not be overly affected by cultural matters? If not, why not? General Intelligence can be measured through various types of intelligence tests, also known as IQ, Intelligence, Aptitude, Intellectual Ability, Capacity to Learn, Cognitive Skills.? General Intelligence is the ability to think about ideas, analyze situations, and solve problems.? IQ stands for intelligence quotient.? ...
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