According to Thesaurus, being intelligent involves very basic related to speed and agility of the mind, as well as very complex processes such as reasoning, discernment or understanding…Being intelligent implies: the ability to acquire and apply knowledge. The faculty of thinking and reasoning.
The ability to understand and benefit from experience. Intelligence is a good that helps us relate better to our environment, learning and using what we learn, through the ability to cognitively elaborate what happens and extract valuable information from the experience. Main currents in the study of individual differences in intelligence. There are various theoretical models that explain the development of intelligence, which are grouped according to the objectives and research methods used. Two of its main groupings due to their usefulness are: intelligence concepts A, B (Hebb) and C (Vernon) Sternberg’s intelligence metaphors
INTELLIGENCE A, B, C
- Intelligence A: innate potential that each individual possesses to be able to learn and adapt to the environment, being necessary to develop intellectually. This potential would be genetically determined and basically mediated by the complexity and plasticity of the central nervous system, its fundamental biological substrate.
- Intelligence B: manifestation of the intelligence of individuals in their daily lives. Conception close to “Practical Intelligence” or “Social Intelligence.”
- Intelligence C: The “psychometric”, the one measured by IQ tests. The authors who defend biological models maintain that Intelligence A is pure, not contaminated by “external” factors of a temperamental, motivational or cultural nature. Others, based on current cognitive theories that focus on the cognitive differences that differentiate people, state that it will not be possible to face the real problem of understanding and appropriately measuring intelligence, while the biological and physiological processes, and the mechanisms that underlying them are not investigated.
Another line, critical of reductionist models, advocates type B intelligence, to the extent that it includes very relevant aspects for everyday life that biological intelligence, and even psychometric intelligence, do not contemplate.
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