Intelligence
By Anna Abramova
We as parents, educators, mentors and friends have always tried labeling our children with some sort of score or IQ. What we have not realized and what many researchers are trying to share with the world is intelligence cannot be put into one category. Our children are bright and we should not handicap them or label them under what academic category they are good in. Intelligence is power, power that is universal it cannot just be tied down to a placement test. Intelligence is when a child can adapt to new situations, gain new skills, knowledge, learn from prior mistakes and grow as they develop. Intelligence is all around us and it is everything.
Cause of Intelligence
- Researchers have spoken after counts of studies that intelligence is primarily inherited and brought out in environment.
- Environment plays a key role on a child’s development psychologically and psychically. If a child who has inherited intelligence is not surround and placed in a healthy thriving environment, that child’s intelligence will decline/
- Cultural background effects they way our children score on IQ scores. When we ask our children open-ended questions we allow for their imaginations to wonder, which is excellent. But looking from a testing perspective the child would not be familiar with the format of testing questions. This will result in lower test and IQ scores.
- Researchers have concluded that children who come from low economical families have lower IQ scores and lower intelligence as to children who come from an average or higher economical home.
- The factors that play into this is again environment, when a child is well fed, well rested and has no worries about their safety or their next meal that child can focus on growth and development. That child may safely study and learn at school and at home. That child has a supportive family that is present by his side after school.
Developmental Trends: Intelligence at different age levels
Infancy: Birth to 2 years
Early Childhood: 2 to 6 years:
Middle Childhood: 6 to 10 years:
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Implications to middle childhood:
Early adolescence: 10 to 14 years
Implication to early adolescence:
Late adolescence: 14 to 18 years:
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