The Importance Of General Intelligence

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Intelligence is an ability to understand objective things and solve problems by knowledge. It develops by knowledge and practice. In 1904, a British psychologist, Charles Spielman found that people who got high score in a specific test would also got high score in other tests. Although there are not much similar among those tests, Spielman believe it is convincing enough to say there is something that make a person always get high score, he called it General Intelligence [3]. Early research of intelligence test used age to calculate the intelligence of children(Binet and Simon). German psychologist Stern firstly put forward the concept of IQ. He raised the formula: MA(Intelligence Age)/CA(Real Age)*100=IQ. This formula connects the age and the intelligence and intelligence reduces with the increasing of age. Obviously it doesn’t conform to reality after further study.(Yang, Wang, Cao, Cheng & Wang, 2015). Till now, people always use deviation IQ as standard, which is not completely impacted by age. With modern investigation, scientists have found that intelligence has connection with many factors. It means age is not so conclusive and many surveys show study, environment and many other factors that have nothing to do with age also affect people’s intelligence. However, it doesn’t mean age is not a significant part of intelligence study. From the survey of age and intelligence, intelligence is linked with age at different phases and there are many different kinds of intelligence have diverse relevance. The survey analyzes …show more content…

In the stage of decreasing, verbal intelligence quotient declines later than others. Though there’s some different between different kinds of intelligence, all of them have the consistent tendency with age.(Zhao & Zhao, 2002).Therefore, to some degree, there’s a relationship between age and

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