On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

In the article “You Can Grow Your Intelligence”, the author discussed a couple of studies that proved not only can your brain grow, but so can your intelligence. It mentioned facts pertaining to the weight of the brain, connection between nerve cells and how it affects the overall intelligence of a species. One of these studies included animals from different environments being tested on their intelligence. According to the study, the animals that were held in captivity and lived alone were not only found to have smaller brains than the ones who lived in a challenging environment, but had less communication between the brain cells that allows them to think strategically and communicate with others. The article claims this theory to be true

In “A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”, Howard Gardner illustrates how there are a variety of intelligences. Gardner starts off with an example how IQ tests may predict achievement in school but may not predict achievement in life. After finding out certain parts of the brain are responsible for certain functions, such as “Broca’s Area” which is responsible for sentence production, Gardner proposes the existence of multiple intelligences. Multiple studies later led him to propose seven distinct intelligences; Musical, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Each intelligence has certain classifications. According to Gardner’s classifications, I realized my intelligences are bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, and intrapersonal.

Since the early 1900’s psychologists have developed theories about how the human brain develops and how humans learn. Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood (Wells, 2011). There are many factors that play vital roles in how we learn, some of which are intelligence, reasoning and memory.

The overall theme of the sources we studied was about growth mindset.The most important thing about growth mindset is that intelligence can be developed. Also, the brain can grow by hard working and practicing. In “You Can Grow your Intelligence,” the author maintains that contrary to the belief that a person is born either smart, average, or dumb, instead the brain is more like a muscle, it changes and get stronger when you use it. Lastly, Carol Dweck, in a Ted Talk titled “ The Power Of Believing That You Can improve,” narrates how she researches about the growth mindset and the fixed mindset, and the benefit of having a growth mindset. Also, in her video she gave many good advice of how you can change a person that have fixed mindset to a growth mindset.

I believe that as technology improves the human brain improves to create more things. In “Smarter than You Think” the author Clive Thompson believes that technology and humans have equal intelligence. Humans are so reliant on technology to the fact that we are constantly improving on them. Since the development of technology information has been easier to obtain and hold inside our brains. While technology is getting more complex, the human brain is also getting more complex in order to continually create new and better gear.

You’re a genius! As this compliment rings in your head imagine that someone is referring to your ability to understand yourself, or even your ability to interact with other people. Under Gardner’s Theory of multiple intelligences each and every one of us have different intelligence strengths, our individual strengths are important in how we develop. Possibly making more unconventional geniuses. Knowing and acknowledging our strengths can help us to excel in life at different levels. Most of us are a combination of many different intelligences. Normally with one or two that are stronger than the others. Like many others you might be thinking intelligence only in reference to a high IQ, and knowledge these other so called “intelligences” are too broad, but I believe you couldn’t be more incorrect. These are possible new ideas for you but consider the fact that we all learn differently if we all had the same type of intelligence than we would all learn the exact same way. As we know this clearly not true. After deep reflection and some research I believe my strongest intelligence is Interpersonal intelligence. Strong interpersonal intelligence are people who are good at understanding and interacting with others nonverbally and verbally. Usually more talented in assessing the emotions and desires of those around them. My second strongest intelligence is intrapersonal intelligences describe as one’s ability to know and understand them self. It is believed that these

Thoughts can be fleeting, however some of the feelings resulting from thought and can have a long lasting impact on the mental state of a person. In my metacognitive exploration I found an interesting comparison between the way in which I think and approach my past feelings and the methods which Tim O’Brien, from The Things They Carried, and Paul D from Beloved express their thinking about the past. I have discovered that the expression of thoughts, including memories and feelings, is the key to a healthy mental state of a person.

Intelligence has a limit, geniuses have a threshold, and divergent thinkers are our future. Malcolm Gladwell addresses these issues in the chapter “The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1” and I have to agree with his reasoning. In the chapter, the Termites are a group of highly intelligent kids that Lewis Terman (hence the name Termites) keeps tabs on as they go through life. He believes that because these students have such high IQs that they will be boundlessly successful. However, it turns out that some are successful and some are not, and I believe the success of the Termites was partially based on personality.

While many people in Chaim Potok’s the chosen demonstrate a great intellect, Reuven, Danny, and Mr. Malter are the most noteworthy people with regard to this trait. Several times throughout the book readers are continually shocked by their intellect. Reuven uses his intellect to solve mathematical problems. Danny’s photographic memory helps him memorize pages of the Talmud every day. Mr. Malter relies on his intellect to advise people, whether by recommending books to Danny or by giving his son advise. Potok’s characters display a wide manifest of intelligence from Reuven’s mathematical mind, Danny’s photographic memory, and Mr. Malter’s ability to convey practical advice.

Gladwell says that these KIPP schools are really doing an excellent work with the kids. Gladwell states that half of the students are african american and the rest are hispanic, which is a pretty good amount of the students. Knowing that these kids are from low income families, you really get a feel that these kids are really trying to get a good education and maybe they want to get out of where they live at the moment. Gladwell does not state it, but it is implied that the KIPP schools inforce math more than any other subject. It is well to understand that many of the students that attended a kipp school go on to college and have a good

By stressing mental procedures, it places itself contrary to behaviourism, which to a great extent overlooks mental procedures. The intellectual approach started to change brain science in the late 1950's and mid 1960's, to end up noticeably the prevailing point of view in brain science by the late 1970's. Atkinson, R. C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (1968), in Spence, K. W., & Spence, J. T, explains how the cognitive approach in brain science is a moderately current way to deal with human conduct that spotlights on how people think. It essentially expects that our points of view influence the route in which we behave. The psychological point of view is a reasonable approach which has been utilized to make the multi-store model of memory forms, strengthened by numerous different analyses.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings-salvador dali. College where education is key, love is found and students become productive wealthy intelligent people. College is what pushes your adult life into motion. As young people we have many choices to make as we start to step off into the next chapter of our life. Studies show that people that go to college make a more stable and live a more progressive life.

A very famous genius once said “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change”, (Einstein). Now the need and want to become brighter must come with exchanges given up by people. This idea goes well with the story “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes. This story is about a mentally-impaired man named “Charlie” and he gets an operation to triple his IQ of 68, but eventually he starts losing all of his knowledge. Charlie was able to get picked for this artificial intelligence enhancement experiment, however there were many more costs that came out from this decision, than benefits for him.

This autobiography was written by Doctor Isaac Asimov who wanted to hint us on what intelligence really is. When the doctor went to get his car fixed, he was asked a riddle by the auto-repair man and got it wrong. The doctor was very smart and the auto-repair man knew it too, yet he was sure that he would trick the doctor because the doctor was too educated. It was true and even the doctor knew it. He was smart by the standards of education but there are different types of being smart like being street smart. He was so educated that he had no experiences with things like riddles which may have been common sense to others. The strength of the passage was being an autobiography with real personal experiences while the weakness was the lack of explanation about how the doctor was lacking in intelligence.

Abstract: In this analysis, it is shown throughout the many different agencies how the intelligence cycle is interpreted. Within each of the different agencies everyone has their own way of obtaining information and different policies that they follow, within the constriction of the US constitution. The intelligence cycle states the many different steps taken to obtain intelligence from domestic to foreign information.