The Role Of Human Intelligence In Psychology

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TONI-4
Human intelligence is one of the most researched areas in psychology. The intelligence is defined as the ability to adapt to the environment and learn through experience. An intelligence test could not measure all the human intelligence forms such as social intelligence and language intelligence. In 1990, Alfred Binet introduced a standard intelligence test to indicate the children with mental retardation and learning difficulties. The test was designed to measure the intelligence based on the mental age of the individual. The Stanford university developed the Binet’s intelligence as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence test. The intelligence was measured using the chronological age and the mental age of the individual (mental age/chronological age *100%). During the first world war period, the United States army developed the Army Alpa Beta test to recruit soldiers for the new positions and readership roles. The …show more content…

The Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-4 (TONI-4), counts the intelligence, aptitude, problem solving and abstract reasoning skills of children and the adults within 15 to 20 minutes. The test contains figures with ascending order of difficulty and representing the shape, position, direction, proximity, rotation, shading, size, and the movement. Easier items contain one or two above mentioned salient characteristics and the difficult items contains several salient characteristics.The intelligence test results are useful for the different types of settings. In educational setting: To identify and support the children with learning difficulties, design the lesson plans to develop the children’s critical thinking skills. In organizational settings, to hire the appropriate candidates and plan training

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