PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Linda Gottfredson, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Psychologist
28 May 2019
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The ability to carry on abstract thinking. How one has learned or can learn to adjust himself to his environment. Judgment, otherwise called "good sense," "practical sense," "initiative," the faculty of adapting one"s self to circumstances auto-critique. The aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment. An editorial statement by fifty-two researchers (1994) A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings "catching on," "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do. Drafted by linda gottfredson for mainstream science on intelligence (1994), and published as an op-ed statement in the wall street journal.
