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According to David Wechsler, intelligence is the ability to act as a directional, thinking rationally, and to deal with their environment effectively. Outline can be inferred that intelligence is a mental ability is that involves a process of thinking rationally. Therefore, intelligence cannot be observed directly, but rather should be inferred from any real action is a manifestation of a rational thought process.

As for factors that affect intelligence are:

Congenital or hereditary factors

The research proved that the correlation of IQ test scores from one family of about 0.50. As for somewhere between 2 twins, the correlation value test his IQ is very high, about 0.90 coins. Other evidence is on children who are adopted. Their IQ correlates approximately 0.40-0.50 with MOM and dad, and only 0.10 – 0.20 with his adopted mother and father. Further evidence on twins raised separately, their IQ correlates remains very high, although perhaps they never knew each other. Read the rest of this entry »

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The term “emotional intelligence” was first launched in 1990 by psychologists Peter Salovey from Harvard University and John Mayer from the University of New Hampshire to explain the emotional qualities that seem to be important for success.

 Salovey and Mayer defines emotional intelligence or EQ is often referred to as:

 ”a subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor social feelings which involve the ability in others, sifting through all of them and use this information to guide our thoughts and actions.”

 Emotional intelligence was strongly influenced by environmental, non-resident, can be varied at any time. To that end the role of the environment especially parents on childhood greatly influences in the formation of emotional intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »