...FAH 0033 THINKING SKILLS 2. INTELLIGENCE, THINKING AND KNOWLEDGE Intelligence? Thinking? Knowledge? I have aced the definition of thinking, but now this! Gosh! Thinking vs Intelligence The belief that intelligence and thinking are the same has led to 2 unfortunate conclusions in education: 1. That nothing is to be done for students with a high intelligence because they will automatically be good thinkers. 2. That nothing can be done for students without a high intelligence because they cannot ever be good thinkers. Thinking vs Intelligence • de Bono found that by developing thinking abilities, it is possible to transform one’s aggressive tendencies, bad temper and other negative tendencies creatively and constructively. when school students were taught to think effectively, their ill-temper and aggressive tendencies reduced significantly. • Thinking vs Intelligence • Clinical Psychologists have also found that those who have neuroses are poor thinkers as compared to normal people. Neurotics scored significantly lower scores in decision making, problem-solving and creative thinking. Interestingly, when neurotics were taught to think effectively, they showed a remarkable reduction in their neurosis. • Intelligence, Thinking & Knowledge A car analogy: • Intelligence is like the horsepower of a car. • Thinking is like the skill of the car driver. • Knowledge is like the fuel of the car. Intelligence, Thinking & Knowledge • Driving Skills...
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...around the world with a simple device called the iPhone. Without doubt, no other species has come to rival our intelligence and ability to progress and adapt to new environments. The value of a human life is so extraordinary because of the potential of the human intellect. Furthermore, it is because our extensive spectrum of emotions including the ability to empathize for others. This is the ultimate evidence of the greatness of man. Yet the question remains: is it wrong to choose a baby’s life over the life of an animal? Undeniably, animals are not equal to humans however, this doesn’t justify the horrors of animal cruelty that go on in today’s world. In evolutionary terms, we are biologically programmed to choose human life over a life of another species. If we didn’t follow this instinct we never would have been able to evolve. None of the above accomplishments would ever have happened. Likewise, animals that are intelligent don’t consider themselves equal to humans. They also don’t consider their own species above humans. All species value the life of the same species. Furthermore, according to Aristotle’s hierarchy of life only humans have a “rational soul” that gives us the ability to think logically and intellectually. It also allows us to think beyond ourselves in bigger terms of the environment. Any animal that even comes close to matching human intelligence like a dolphin is thus...
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...Jack Neglieri History of Intellectual Assessment Paper The assessment of intelligence started a long time ago in the BC era as time went by the development of intelligence testing increase and some are well respected. Intelligence tests are measures designed to assess the level of cognitive capabilities of an individual compared to other people in a population (Kowalski, R. & Westen, D., 2001). Although the different psychologist had different point of view about how to measure intelligence, they all made a impact on intelligence testing in their time period. The history of intellectual assessment can be trace back over 200 years in an era called foundation by psychologist ranging from Plato 347 BCE to Itard 1838 they formed the foundation for other to explorer in modern intelligence. The next era was called modern foundation the psychologist ranging from Locke to Darwin to Charcot continue to influence the study of intelligence. The third era which was called “The great school” made an impact of the study of intelligence. The psychologists Wundt to Cattell to Edison explorer other countries to profile intelligence and came back to the United States to have a big influence. As this era continue to grow the assessment of intelligence started to develop with a psychologist by the named of Alfred Binet. Alfred Binet describes intelligence as “It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the...
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...The core drivers of the information age are: Data, Information, Business Intelligence and Knowledge. Data: Data are raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event or object. Before the information age, collecting and analyzing data is a time consuming and complicated task for managers as they used to do it manually. Managers often found difficulty in making business decisions about how many employees to hire, how much material to order. They used to do it based on intuition or gut feelings. In the information age, Managers make more successful business decision by compile, analyze and comprehend massive amounts of data daily. Information: If data is converted into a meaningful and useful context is called Information. Information has a good value when people use it. Having the right information at the right moment in time can be worth a fortune. Having the wrong information at the right moment or the right information at the wrong moment can be disastrous. Business Intelligence: For making strategic decisions, industries analyze patterns, trends, and relationships by collecting information from multiple sources such as suppliers, customers, competitors and partners is called Business Intelligence. Knowledge: Person’s intellectual resources is called knowledge which includes the experience, skills, expertise, information and intelligence. Those who has the ability interpret and analyze information are called knowledge workers. Knowledge workers are...
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...Aaliyah Pearson Biology 1000.03 11/20/14 Race and Intelligence The argument that race is directly related to intelligence has no scientific relevance at all. The argument that intelligence was directly related to race came from the origin in order to identify the “socially unfit/moronic” people. After this was proven in some people, mostly African Americans, they were subjected to sterilization and forced to ridicule among the community. Many books were written on the subject, and none ever having any solid scientific evidence to prove their claims, only pure speculation and “word-of-mouth”. The argument against race and intelligence having any correlation has gone on far too long and the debate is rather irrelevant as well as incoherent. One argument that is debated is that those races of Asian and Caucasian Americans are thought to have larger skulls and brain sizes than those of African descent. This point has been debunked and proven wrong many times. Studies have been shown that many skulls that have been found in the older times have all been of larger sizes, including those of African descent and it has also been found that the average brain size between African Americans and Caucasians are the same. Those claims that have been made shows a clear lack of knowledge of the evolutionary theory of those that lived before us. Another argument that has been widely accepted but yet pure speculation in itself is that the test scores between...
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...values, in one form or the other. But how different is ethics for a person and for a leader? Emotional Intelligence It can be defined as the ability to use emotions intelligently and appropriately in different situations, combined with the ability to use emotions. Emotionally intelligent people are able to accurately recognize and comprehend emotion, both in them and in others, to appropriately express emotion, and to be able to control their own emotion so as to facilitate their own emotional, intellectual and spiritual growth. In short, emotionally intelligent people intentionally use their thinking and behavior to guide their emotions rather than letting their emotions dictate their thinking and behavior. Individual Ethics In today’s world, people can make a single decision that can have a profoundly positive or negative affect on the family, their employees, coworkers, a nation, and even on the entire world. Ethics is a set of values and principles that guide the behavior of an individual or a group. Personal ethics are different for each person but for the most part, people want to be known as a good person, someone who can be trusted (Wood 2003). An individual’s ethical code is formed and influenced by social environment. The most influence on our values comes from the families we grow up with; the family is responsible for teaching what is right and wrong long before other influences. Teachers and classmates help shape the values of children during the school...
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...Competitive Intelligence Term Paper Dr. Ahmed Nassar Prepared by Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed El Mizayen 1. What is CI? he process of collecting and analyzing information about competitors’ strengths and weaknesses in a legal and ethical manner to enhance business decision-making. Competitive intelligence activities can be basically grouped into two main types – 1) Tactical, which is shorter-term and seeks to provide input into issues such as capturing market share or increasing revenues; and 2) Strategic, which focuses on longer-term issues such as key risks and opportunities facing the enterprise. Competitive intelligence is different from corporate or industrial espionage, which use illegal and unethical methods to gain an unfair competitive advantage. Competitive intelligence means different things to different people within an organization. For example, to a sales representative, it may mean tactical advice on how best to bid for a lucrative contract. To top management, it may mean unique marketing insights to gain market share against a formidable competitor. The ultimate end goal of competitive intelligence is to help make better decisions and enhance organizational performance. While most companies can find substantial information about their competitors online, competitive intelligence goes way beyond merely trawling the Internet, on the premise that the most valuable information is seldom – if ever – easily accessible online. A typical competitive intelligence...
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...I. Resolution: Human intelligence is better than signal intelligence II. Definition of Term: Better: Being more reliable and more dependable. III. Arguments validating the resolution. A.) According to FBI.Gov, HUMINT is a category of intelligence derived from information collected and provided by human sources. HUMINT can provide several kinds of information. It can provide observations during travel or other events from travelers, refugees, escaped friendly POWs, etc. It can provide data on things about which the subject has specific knowledge, which can be another human subject, or, in the case of defectors and spies, sensitive information to which they had access. Therefore, HUMINT is a primary source in today’s reliability on B.) Also according to FBI.Gov, HUMINT is the standardized system that is used to rate the reliability of sources and the likely accuracy of the information they provide; information may be classified as true once it is performed by a number of sources. Therefore, HUMINT is a much reliable source than SIGNINT. C.) According to Princeton.edu HUMINT can provide several kinds of information. It can provide observations during travel or other events from travelers, refugees etc. It can provide data on things about which the subject has specific knowledge, which can be another human subject, or, in the case of defectors and spies, sensitive information to which they had access. D.) According to CIA.gov, This involves selecting people who may...
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...there are objective moral truths. (2) Practical moral arguments: Arguments that conclude that one ought to believe because of the moral value (intrinsic value, value to the believer and/or value to others) of believing that there is a God. We have already encountered this distinction in the readings by Lois Hope Walker and G.E. Moore. C. S. Lewis’s moral arguments are mostly of the theoretical kind. C. S. Lewis’s Main Argument Lewis’s Premise (1): Everyone knows, and so believes, that there are objective moral truths. Lewis: People blame, praise, and try influence things on the basis of the belief that certain things are really right and wrong – in some objective sense. And it really is obvious that, e.g., cruelty is wrong. Objection 1: Many people deny that there is any objective right or wrong. Lewis: They are always inconsistent in that they go on believing and asserting such that, e.g. some actions are unfair and that there is sometimes such a thing as the “objectively right side” in a war. Objection 2: Our sense of morality is just a “herd instinct” that has developed (perhaps by evolution). Lewis: Morality sometimes commands that we act in accordance with the weaker instinct (e.g. to save a drowning man). Morality sometimes requires that certain instincts be suppressed or encouraged in a way contrary to our natural impulses. So it is implausible that morality itself is an “instinct”. [Note that Lewis is assuming that we are sometimes...
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...Emotional Intelligence Everyday November 30, 2014 Emotional Intelligence Everyday According to Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer, emotional intelligence is defined as, “the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions” (1990). This means, emotional intelligence gives you the ability to evaluate emotions, control emotions, and perceive emotions. Although others believe emotional intelligence is an inborn characteristic, some researchers believe it can be strengthened and learned. Each individual is different when choosing the way to live their life. This is where the dimensions of emotional intelligence comes in. For someone who lives a very happy and satisfied life, they might not realize how bad another individual may have it. So even though the happy individual lives day by day in a great mood, another person may be living each day the complete opposite. Therefore, someone who is happy everyday would be considered positive, and the other person who lives in sorrow and doubt would be negative. So between these two types of individuals, one can summarize in which place they fall. Some examples of emotional intelligence would be first, to understand your emotions. Understanding your emotions would definitely help you control and manage your emotions. Next, would be to think about the specific emotion before...
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...Goleman defines a leader as a person who identifies a human need and designs a solution to meet the need.Most leaders in our workplace are very competent when it comes to leadership roles but always lack the human aspect of leadership.Research have shown that mist outstanding leaders in organizations are those who can combine emotional intelligence and rational leadership.Many leaders who are excellent are denied promotion to senior positions because they lack the human aspect of leadership. Emotions are part of the human makeup.The position and the structure of the human brain makes man an emotional being who always considers his feelings more than his thoughts. Goleman(1998)discusses five component of emotional intelligence. The fist part that Goleman explains is self-awareness.Leaders should know and access their mood to ensure it matches our values.Most leaders rarely consider their attitudes as to what is going on their life and whether their attitude will affect the overall decision they make,They are always thinking of what to do the nest minute and over the years without considering their moods and weather the feelings will affect the overall decision they make. When a leader is able ti access himself in terms of decisions, he needed to take he can integrate the decision he is made with his core values and mission in life. Self-awareness serves as a form of an assessment to leaders as good leaders can know their strengths and weakness as such makes them focus on doing...
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...Aspects of Psychology Kasia Nalbandian American Intercontinental University The emotional intelligence is the combination of our emotions and intelligence. According to (Cherry, N.D., para2) is the ability of recognizing, managing and evaluating our emotions, we have four branches of emotional intelligence are the following: perceiving emotions, reasoning with emotions, understanding emotions and managing emotions. Perceiving emotions is the first of the emotions involved body language. Example: In school 6 kids are friends one day 5 of them are sitting together and the other 1 kid is sitting by his self and watching the others. We need to know why this kids is alone is he sad, mad, terrified. Reasoning emotions is the second of the emotions encourage our thoughts and mind, also help us for our attentions, reaction and our emotionally responses. (Recognizing emotions) Example: Why certain things got my attention? (Using emotions). Understanding emotions is the good or the bad emotionally reactions. Example: one day my mom acting mad I need to know or understand if she’s mad from me, or from something else. Managing emotions is the most important in emotional intelligence branch because managing emotions is how to manage our emotions, how can we control our emotions, and how can hurt or respect others emotions. Example: If I’m mad or angry I have to manage or control my reactions to not hurt...
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...where we have know idea what is going to happen in terms of the future and how it may play out. Everybody has an interest in education partly it is because it takes us into the future that is unknown. He states a few stats on education and the unpredictability of it as soon as five years down the road. The third part is the extraordinary capacities that children have towards innovation. Kids will take a chance at creativity they are not afraid of mistakes at being creative. For example if they are in a play that they have lines to say and forget their line they will say something because they are not afraid of making a mistake. Saying something wrong does not mean you are being creative but if you are not prepared of being wrong you will never come up with anything original. Most people that grow up have lost that capacity not afraid to be wrong. Companies are run this way by stigmatizing mistakes. The education systems now are run that mistakes are the worst you can make and the result is we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Ken goes on and quotes Picasso as saying “ all children are born artists the problem is to remain artists as we grow up”. Ken...
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...Words 25th February 2010 Intelligence The BBC's Clare Arthurs looks at some of the words and phrases often used in the news and their meanings in various contexts. In this feature she talks about the word intelligence. Intelligence. You'll hear it used quite a lot in the news; as a noun, as in, Intelligence Ministry or intelligence agents. Put simply, we use it in the news to refer to information or analysis, provided by government agencies on matters of national interest or state security. Who is the information, intelligence or the analysis of knowledge provided to? It goes to the government of the day, and it’s usually gathered, and given, in secret. To quote from the American secret service, the CIA or Central Intelligence Agency: "We are the eyes and ears of the nation and at times its hidden hand." Britain's security service, MI5, says it exists to protect national security, using techniques such as surveillance, or following people, and listening to their conversations. We most often hear about the activities of intelligence agencies when things go wrong, or their work crosses into the political arena. You'll hear talk of intelligence agents, secret service people, spies, or, very informally, spooks. You'll also hear intelligence used in other news stories, stories about human intelligence, or how clever we are; whether there's intelligent life on other planets, another reference to the ability of the brain; and artificial intelligence, which refers to the...
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...resolve issues (Criticalthinking.org)”. The eight elements of thought are think about the purpose, state the question, gather information, watch your inferences, check your assumptions, clarify your concepts, understand your point of view, and think through the implications. These eight elements of thought come from Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul. We will use Dr. Elder’s and Dr. Paul’s eight elements of thought to analyze and discuss about The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. This is also known as the overview of the WMD Report. The main purpose of this report is to determine and expose the lack of critical thinking that was used by each of the intelligence agencies that assumed that Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, had reconstituted his nuclear weapons program, had biological weapons, had mobile biological weapon production facilities, and had stockpiled and was producing chemical weapons. The coverage of the most public and most damaging intelligence failure in recent American history will be used by the authors to offer their conclusions on what needs to be done to avoid such disastrous misinterpretations and misconceptions. There are several key questions addressed by the authors in this report. First, what led...
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