Unit 9 What is Intelligence,Anyway? 658
Unit 9 What is Intelligence, Anyway?
Education and Intelligence ■Ve are faced with the 9 3 paradoxical fact that education 8 4. 65 has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ---Bertrand Russell
Education and Intelligence ◼ We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ◼ ---Bertrand Russell
Blank Filling:listen and fill in the blanks Intelligence is a term usually referring to a general mental capacity to reason,solve problems,think abstractly,learn new material,and profit_from past experience.Intelligence can be measured by many different kinds of tasks.Likewise this ability is expressed in many aspects of a person's life Intelligence draws_on_a variety of mental processes, including memory,learning,_perception,decision-making and reasoning.Yet no_universally_accepted definition of intelligence exists,and people continue to _debate what, exactly,it is.Fundamental questions remain:Is intelligence one general ability or several independent systems of abilities?Is intelligence a property of the brain,a characteristic of behavior,or a set of knowledge and skills?
Blank Filling: listen and fill in the blanks Intelligence is a term usually referring to a general mental ________ to reason, solve problems, think abstractly, learn new material, and ______from past experience. Intelligence can be _________ by many different kinds of tasks. , this ability is expressed in many aspects of a person’s life. Intelligence ___a variety of mental processes, including memory, learning, ____, decision-making and reasoning. Yet no _____accepted definition of intelligence exists, and people continue to ______what, exactly, it is. ____________ questions remain: Is intelligence one general ability or several independent systems of abilities? Is intelligence a ________of the brain, a characteristic of behavior, or a set of knowledge and skills? capacity profit measured Likewise draws on perception universally Fundamental debate property
Introductory Remarks ■What is intelligence?” Isaac Asimov,the famous American writer,offers his interpretation of intelligence in the text.He knows from his own experience that intelligence is not absolute. He has scored amazingly high on various scholastic aptitude tests,but the high scores simply mean that he is very good at answering that type of academic questions.In terms of IQ's, he is highly intelligent and may be labeled as a "genius;"but in the auto-repairman's eye,he is not even“smart,”just because he is so goddamned educated
Introductory Remarks ◼ “What is intelligence?” ◼ Isaac Asimov, the famous American writer, offers his interpretation of intelligence in the text. He knows from his own experience that intelligence is not absolute. ◼ He has scored amazingly high on various scholastic aptitude tests, but the high scores simply mean that he is very good at answering that type of academic questions. In terms of IQ’s, he is highly intelligent and may be labeled as a “genius;” but in the auto-repairman’s eye, he is not even “smart,” just because he is so “goddamned educated
Structure ■ Part1 (Para.1-2)I have been scoring high in intelligence tests all my life 3 but it only means that i am good at 8 answering certain types of academic questions. Part 2(para.3-4)Intelligence is not absolute and it is decided by the society one lives in. Part3 (Para.5-7)My auto repairman played a joke on me, which seemed to prove me a moron
Structure ◼ Part1 (Para.1-2) I have been scoring high in intelligence tests all my life but it only means that I am good at answering certain types of academic questions. ◼ Part 2 (para.3-4) Intelligence is not absolute and it is decided by the society one lives in. ◼ Part3 (Para.5-7) My auto repairman played a joke on me, which seemed to prove me a moron