Intelligence Term Paper by writingsensation

This paper explains that, from Robert Sternberg to Charles Spearman, psychologists over the last hundred years have attempted to shed light on the popular idea of intelligence and turn its nebulous concept into one of concrete measured understanding. The author points out that, by examining the cognitive process of young children, Piaget found that intelligence was an evolving process of a certain adaptation to the outside world. The paper relates that Charles Spearman was the first to develop techniques, which measured inter-correlations between different tests of intelligence, and postulated the existence of a general intellectual ability factor, which is tapped by all other mental abilities such as linguistic, mechanical and arithmetic abilities.