There are eight teams in a junior hockey league and during hockey season, every team plays each of the other teams exactly once. How many games do the teams play during the season? Answer: The grid below shows 8 rows of 8 columns. The cell in row 3 column 2 represents a game between team …
The post below was written in response to a question from Leslie. Leslie, a person of average student can raise their performance in school or college by immersing themselves in their studies and developing a deep interest in the content. When you are excited by the content of a subject, you can invest long hours …
High intelligence is probably a prerequisite for genius, especially the kind of genius that is expressed in abstract fields like mathematics, physics and the other sciences, because measures of intelligence are highly correlated with performance in these fields. In the arts, high intelligence may be less important than a special creativity, skill or knowledge. Shakespeare’s …
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The graph below from Intelligence, IQ and Perception, shows the various cognitive skills that are tested on the WAIS III IQ subtests. You can see that vocabulary is a component of the verbal comprehension index, so a large vocabulary would certainly enhance an IQ score. However, there are many other important cognitive skills under the …
Between birth and early adulthood, the brain passes through significant periods of neural growth and pruning in which new neuronal connections are produced and those not used are pruned. Throughout this development, you might expect that your IQ would remain relatively stable, because IQ is a measure of intelligence relative to others of the same age. …
Pattern recognition is definitely an important component of fluid intelligence, but there are several others. Fluid intelligence varies depending on the neural structure of the brain. The brains of highly intelligent people are typically found to have a lower neurite density allowing for a faster and more efficient transmission of information. Such brains also show …
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In the 1940’s, psychologist Raymond B. Cattell attempted to create “culture-free” tests of intelligence. Believing that IQ tests contain implicit biases in favor of particular cultures, he sought to apply factor analysis to partition the g factor of intelligence (as measured by IQ) into two components–fluid and crystallized. He described fluid intelligence, as “a capacity …
The four concepts: genius, high intelligence, smartness and cleverness, share common characteristics because they all draw on our ability to learn and to solve problems–intelligence. Consequently, we’ll build on the definition of intelligence in order to distinguish among these concepts. Intelligence The following definition of intelligence, given by psychologist Linda Gottfredson in 1997, has achieved wide consensus …
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During the latter half of the 20th century, the development of digital technology accelerated the creation of knowledge at an exponential rate. In what has been called the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we have created machines with processing power that can defeat humans in strategic games like chess and associative challenges like Jeopardy! as well as outpace us in …
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The most widely-used IQ tests are the Wechsler, the Stanford-Binet and the Raven’s Progressive Matrices tests. Wechsler (WAIS IV) In 1955, American psychologist David Wechsler published a new intelligence test that became known as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). He defined intelligence as “the global capacity of a person to act purposefully, to think rationally, and …
