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INTRODUCTION
The difficulty faced by people trying to derive meaningful intelligence tests is that they are trying to test something which psychologists find very hard to define, or at least find a definition which they can agree upon. In the 1920’s psychologists said that intelligence is what is measured by intelligence tests, so they must have been as confused and frustrated as this assignment has made me! Every psychologist who has studied intelligence seems to have come up with their own definition, but these definitions fall into three main classifications. ... One psychologist who had an intuitive definition of intelligence was Lewis Madison Terman who worked in the early 20th century and defined intelligence as “ the ability to carry on abstract thinking”. Terman used studies carried out by Binet & Simon who were commissioned in 1904 by the French government to devise a test to identify children who would not benefit from ordinary schooling because of inferior intelligence; this was generally accepted as the first intelligence test. Terman adapted that test for use in the USA, and his version became known as the Standford-Binet test the first revision of which was published in 1916, and was designed to measure normal and superior as well as subnormal intelligence.
LOGICAL
Secondly, logical definitions - definitions based on the implications of the way the word intelligence is actually used. Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist whose definition fell into this category, developed many theories regarding intelligence, and saw it as a process, something which changes over time and represents a means by which humans adapt to their environment. ... So according to Piaget, knowledge is not something innate but starts life as a potential that needs to be nurtured, to become what is known as intelligence. If this definition is to be supported, then intelligence tests are a test of how those faculties are developed.
Approximate Word count = 1463
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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