TY - JOUR
AU - Freeman, F. N.
AB - Discusses nature and measurement of intelligence. There are certain intellectual traits which are left out of our present scheme of tests and which should be included in a total conception of intelligence. These additional characteristics may be described as: mental balance; co-ordination of the mental processes; the judicious management of the processes of learning or reflection; mental control; mental adjustment; the direction of the attention toward the significant aspects of experience; a due degree of non-suggestibility; the adoption of intellectual purposes and the adaptation of means to their satisfaction; sensitiveness to significant combinations between experiences which illuminate one another or which are effective in building up systems of thought; balanced and sane reaction to the entire world of things, ideas and persons. The attempt to catalogue some of the characteristics which would ordinarily be recognized as belonging to high intelligence indicates that our tests are much too fragmentary to be thought of as even approximately complete measures of intelligence as a whole. There is undoubtedly a correlation between brightness and these broader aspects of intelligence, but we ought to devise tests to measure such processes as these more directly than is done by our present tests. The second step is to devise tests of more specific capacities. A group of tests, each one of which has a low correlation with school marks, will give a considerably higher correlation when their scores are combined.
TI - Intelligence and Its Measurement: A Symposium--III.
JF - Journal of Educational Psychology
DO - 10.1037/h0068752
DA - 1921-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/intelligence-and-its-measurement-a-symposium-iii-wGL6aLrVdk
SP - 133
EP - 136
VL - 12
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -