The idea of measuring intelligence began in 1904 in France, when the psychologist Alfred Binet was commissioned by the French government to find a method that would assist to differentiate between children who were ‘intellectually normal’ and those who were ‘inferior’ (slow learners).
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Intelligence
It is in sense that different scholars made efforts to come up with their own understanding of what intelligence really is and the different forms that it may take. It is this effort by psychologists and other scientists which resulted in various Theories of intelligence.
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Intelligence
There are several modes of classification of intelligence. However, in a general perspective, intelligencecan be classified as either fluid intelligence or crystallised intelligence.
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Cognitive Development, Intelligence
The structure of intelligence can be referred to as the different components or elements of intelligence which, according to the triardic theory are divided into: metacomponents, performance components, and knowledge-acquisition components.
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Education, Educational Psychology, Intelligence, Psychology
The theories of forgetfulness, explain different ways in which concepts are understood. It is in this logic that even the theories of forgetting were viewed divergently by various scholars.
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Memory and forgetfulness
Memory can be defined as the process by which people encode, store and retrieve information. There are three stages in information processing; (encoding, storing and retrieval represents the process) somewhat operating like the way the computer operates.
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Memory and forgetfullness
Psychologists have spent years etching out patterns in personality traits that suggest that people vary in the degree to which
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Attribution Theory, Theories of Motivation
The concept of self-fulfilling prophecy was defined by Wool folk, A. (2013:538) as a groundless expectation that is confirmed because it has been expected.
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Theories of Motivation
David McClelland advanced an achievement motivation theory which argues that some people are motivated by the “need for achievement” (n-ach). Individuals with a high need for achievement have the following characteristics:
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Theories of Motivation
The drive-reduction theory of motivation emphasizes the internal states of the organism; however, the Incentive theory of motivation stresses the
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Blog, Motivation, Psychology, Theories of Motivation
The drive-reduction theory of motivation emphasizes the internal states of the organism; however, the Incentive Function theory stresses the role of the environment in motivating behaviour.
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Theories of Motivation
The expectancy theory of motivation was suggested by Victor Vroom. Unlike Maslow, Vroom does not concentrate on needs as motivational factors, but rather he focuses on outcomes.
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Theories of Motivation
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