PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology

Intelligence affects how an individual would fare in school , what job he /she is capable of , the activities and what of friends he /she would go for . Intelligence is defined as a person 's general intellectual ability furthermore , intelligence is a basic concept in human nature (Morris and Maisto 313 . It refers to the individual 's ability to learn and translate it into adaptive behavior (313 . Tests have been developed to gauge the individual 's intelligence . The first intelligence test , in fact , was created by Sir Francis Galton (Cognitive Processes n

.d . The existence of IQ (intelligent quotient ) tests and performance examinations as a predictor in an individual 's success is proof of its popularity and importance . It aids in assuming how an individual would perform (Feldman 293 . Its importance has led psychologists to study the nature of intelligence . However , there is one controversy that continues to hound intelligence , its determinants . The pendulum swings from nature or heredity to nurture or the environment

R .C . Tyron pioneered an investigation involving rats . Tyron separated two sets of rats- maze-bright rats ' and the maze-dull rats (Morris 328 . After breeding , Tyron found that the offspring of the bright rats displayed the same maze-bright ' ability of the parents while the offspring of the maze-dull eat possessed slow thinking (328 . This led Tyron to conclude that intelligence is hereditary . This means than if the parents posses ' high intelligence their children would also display more or less the same degree of intelligence . Likewise , there have...