Show how "general intelligence" and "special aptitudes" may work together to give success in some special line of work.
These were not the first tests in existence by any means, but they were the first attempt at a measure of general intelligence, and they proved extraordinarily useful.
With regard to general intelligence, every one knows the extraordinary wariness of rats in relation to traps, which is only equalled in the animal kingdom by that of the fox and the wolverine.
These tests, however, as used in the army and for appraising college entrants, as at Columbia University, have been demonstrated to be fairly good indices of general intelligence.
There have been a number of tests devised for the purpose of estimating an individual's general intelligence.
Footnote 1: The psychological tests used in the army, and being used now with modifications in the admission of students to Columbia College, are "general intelligence" tests.
By such means it is possible not only to measure the "general intelligence" of the worker, but also his actual ability in creating a definite type of product.
These scales will be again considered in a later section, when we discuss the measures of general intelligence as they relate to vocational guidance and selection.
Such alignment will enable us to specify the approximate degree of general intelligence which a given position demands, and thus, in the case of the simpler tasks, afford a means of vocational guidance as well as vocational selection.
For example, the scale does not pretend to measure the entire mentality of the subject, but only general intelligence.
The writer predicts that when this is done there will be discovered enormously significant racial differences in general intelligence, differences which cannot be wiped out by any scheme of mental culture.
If any thought is taken at all of this contingency, 'general intelligence' is still relied upon.
At the age of 8 years E rated plus 11 PE in general intelligence (by Stanford-Binet) as compared with the generality of 8-year-olds.
The second two columns give the correlations of the results of the tests with the children's "general intelligence.
That such improvement was not due to a rise in general intelligence can be concluded from the present experiment.
The main line of interest in the present experiment lay with the relation of adenoid and tonsil defects to general intelligence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general intelligence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
