What is Intelligence?

What is intelligence?

• 'Capacity to learn'
• Capacity to understand world, think rationally and use resources effectively when faced with challenges
• Ability to aquire and use knowledge 
• Higher intelligence allows you to perform complex tasks well, lower intelligence means you will struggle ]
• Alfred Binet developed a test to distinguish between 'normal' and 'inferior' children, put in special schools to identify which needed more help
• > tasks measure judgement, reasoning
• > guided by age differentiation and general mental ability 
• > age differentiation
• -- looked for tasks to be completed by 3/4 of children in certain age group, completed more by younger children
• > general mental ability 
• -- measured only total product of tasks, judged some tasks in terms of correlation…