“Buff Your Brain” by Sharon Begley explains how a person’s IQ can change over years. According to the article, by training people with short-term-memory tasks like remembering letters that appear on a screen. In my opinion, just being able to remember some letters on a screen is not an indicator of how “smart” you are. Intelligence has more than one form and people aren’t just stupid or smart, period. Yes, working on short-term-memory can be a useful skill, however just because someone has a hard
Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future” believes that we are in fact dumber because of it. If anything I would say that our generation is way more advanced than others before us. Now I understand that some people may not use the internet for learning purposes, but you can’t speculate that we are stupid just because of a few bad eggs. When saying something like that there are a few things to look at, like for example the IQ results from then compared
Flowers for Algernon Essay If you could become a genius but at a great cost would you do it? In the story “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie Gordon made this decision. All Charlie had ever wanted to be in his life was smart, but how could that be possible when you have an IQ of 68? Well Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur found a way. They performed a surgery with only 1 other test subject that was a mouse named Algernon. The surgery was designed to make people geniuses. what they didn’t know about this
Is intelligence fixed, or can it be improved over time? All depends on your age and how one sees "intelligence," a professor of clinical psychiatry explains in an article Can You Get Smarter by Richard Friedman. Friedman writes, "Starting at age 55, our hippocampus, a brain region critical to memory, shrinks 1% to 2% every year, to say nothing of the fact that one in nine people age 65 and older has Alzheimer's disease." It is not surprising, he says, that a burgeoning brain training industry has
“Hidden Intellectualism” response essay The measure of intelligence is not entirely from the knowledge given, but from the knowledge you have produced by yourself working together as a whole. Knowledge can come from anywhere in different forms and amounts. The author brings the truth to light about knowledge and where it can come from and the importance of accepting the different forms through examples. Like in “Hidden Intellectualism” in the book “They Say I say” written by Gerald Graff and Cathy
work (Wechsler,1998) is part of our life and can be tested by psychometrics test such as IQ Test, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children(WISC), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement(K-TEA) and others.
What is the reason that although someone who has high intelligence have no creativity? Because intelligence is not the only factor that people have high creativity. Creativity is a diversified thing, sometimes you observe or discovery something new, which doesn’t mean you are a smart person, you may just see that because of your interest. Guilford (1967) had done a research, he discovered that there was less correlation at above-average levels of intelligence between intelligence and creativity. When
Have you ever wondered why some kids put in more effort and others will give up if things get too hard? In the article “Why some kids try harder and some kids give up,” Tracy Cutchlow explains why this happens. Cutchlow, author of “Zero to Five: 70 Essential parenting tips based on science,” explains fixed mindset and growth mindset. She also explains how it affects kids learning. Cutchlow argues that the type of mindset kids have affects their learning by affecting how hard they will try for something
falling from the trees all the time, but it was Newton who looked at falling of an apple in a totally new way and discovered the force of gravity. IQ tests and classroom tests are based on conventional thinking and logic. Often, there is only one answer to a question as dictated by conventional thinking and logic. If you get that specific answer, you get a score. Creative thinking is about a different answer, an answer that we don't habitually think. As a result of this, highly creative people
compared to a utopic environment. However, separating pupils and having high standards on intellectuality (or IQ) is not effective and has some issues, as demonstrated by Gordon Korman in his novel ‘Ungifted’. This is proven through Donovan Curtis’ accidental placement into the Academy of Scholastic Distinction (ASD), an institute where students are placed based on several standardized tests and high academic standards. This is evident as Donovan introduces the students to new things, brings