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Intelligence and Two Different Perspectives

Psychologists have been debating the definition and the theory of intelligence for many years. One dictionary defines intelligence as "the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations; the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria." Different theories exist that try to determine what qualities are a part of intelligence. Two psychologists, Charles Spearman and Howard Gardner, have their own theories about determining what intelligence is and how to measure it.
In the early 1900s, Charles Spearman (1863-1945) made an important observation that has influenced many later theories of intelligence: He noted that all tests of mental ability consisted of positive correlation, or the degree to which two variables are associated and vary together (Intelligence, 2006). Spearman reasoned that there must be a common variable or factor......

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