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     In accordance with the psychology of elements of the previous century which held that the "psychic" consists of particular "functions", various researcher tried to isolate those specific functions on which "intelligence" is built. On the one hand, they isolated intelligence as an independent unity and, on the other hand, they viewed intellectual achievements as a series of small, separate components each being a separate "ability, capacity, factor, disposition, talent" detached from the person as a functioning totality. Thus, for example, Binet was of the opinion that intelligence as a "function" is a compilation of other functions and he views different aspects of thinking as belonging to their essence Spearman's view is based on the theory that intelligence is built up from different "factors".

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Who's Smarter?

   New research is providing an answer to the age-old, delicate question: who is smarter, men or women? A new study has come down on the feminine side of that argument, finding that women now score higher on IQ tests than men. James Flynn, a New Zealand-based researcher known as an IQ testing expert, said that over the past century, women have lagged slightly behind men in IQ testing scores, at times by as much as five points. But now, Flynn said women have closed the gap and even inched ahead in this battle of the intelligent sexes. “As we enter the modern worlds, our minds change just as our automobiles have changed,” Flynn said. “Where women can have an equal chance to interface with the modern world, they equal on IQ and surpass on academic performance.”

COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

HUMAN AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

     Artificial intelligence is created by human intelligence. Human intelligence can think for its own, but artificial intelligence won’t think. Human intelligence can invent new things including artificial intelligence, but artificial intelligence can’t do it. Human intelligence revolves around adapting to the environment using a combination of several cognitive processes. The field of Artificial intelligence focuses on designing machines that can mimic human behavior. However, AI researchers are able go as far as implementing Weak AI, but not the Strong AI. In fact, some believe that Strong AI is never possible due to the various differences between the human brain and a computer. So, at the moment, the mere ability to mimic the human behavior is considered as Artificial Intelligence. But human intelligence and artificial intelligence have similarities, which is they can teach us, they can instruct us, they can help us to do the things faster.

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Baboon 'Readers' Pick Out Real Words

     Dan the baboon and five buddies know real English words when they see them. For instance, if Dan sees the letters BRRU, ITCS, and KITE, he'll pick out the last one as the real word, even though he doesn't know what it means. After doing 300,000 tests in France, the animals were able to pick out real words some 75% of the time. The primates process the words by separating them into parts, a researcher says. This way of thinking helped them identify words they'd never seen before. What's more, they did the study when they felt like it: If they wanted a reward, they could head to a training station at any time. Not only does the experiment show "amazing cognitive abilities" among baboons, says a scientist—it also points to an innate sense of pattern that may exist in humans, too.

CAUSE AND EFFECT

HAVING A HIGH IQ

        People with exceptionally high intelligence are forced to engage with the world around them at a much higher level of complexity and multi-dimensionality than most of us. At that level, or in those terms, this simple, straightforward logic breaks down. They'd have no emotional reaction at all, because all of those problems are beyond their cognitive grasp. One cannot react to what one does not perceive or grasp mentally. The exact same gap exists between an average person and one with exceptionally high intellectual faculties. The gifted person is continuously bombarded with stimuli-- threats, potential rewards, problems, possibilities, contradictions, potentialities, wonders, mysteries, ironies, complications, ramifications, and parallel or underlying meanings-- all of which are utterly invisible to the average person.