Intelligence: Personalities, Traits, and Ways to Work Smarter

By Jason Hendrickson

What makes one person more intelligent than another? What is it and how do we measure it?



In this guide, we’ll touch on those things, which lie at the heart of the definition and accomplishment of this term. We will also go over the best ways to work less hard but smarter. The Alfred Binet theories and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale will be discussed, as well as the success of highly intelligent people, personality traits, and lots more. In only a short number of pages, you can learn more than you think.



What do you think? Is learning what being smart is a good idea? Go ahead and get started.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anonymous
• Release date: Nov 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220222136

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Intelligence

Personalities, Traits, and Ways to Work Smarter

By Jason Hendrickson

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What Makes Somebody More Intelligent?

Chapter 2: What Is Intelligence and How Is It Gauged?

Chapter 3: The Best 4 Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder

Chapter 4: Alfred Binet and His History of IQ Screening

Chapter 5: The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Chapter 6: Are People With High IQs More Effective?

Chapter 7: Can You Change Your Personality?

Chapter 8: The Big 5 Traits

Chapter 1: What Makes Somebody More Intelligent?

One important reason why people could find talking about intelligence awkward is the conviction that it is a thing you are born with and therefore, you can do nothing to affect it. That undercuts social equality, and feeds into the very connection between intelligence assessing and tests and eugenics, which still has a big connotation for most people.

Still, there is no getting away the fact that intelligence is acquired to some degree. Researchers found that the IQ of kids adopted at birth bore little correlation with that of their adoptive parents or caregivers, but strongly associated with that of their biological parents. What's more, this association ended up being stronger as the children got older.

That's counter-intuitive for most people, says Robert Plomin at King's College London, who led the study. They think as you go through life, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune build up and ecological differences end up being cumulatively more important, because they believe that genes only impact what happens at the moment of conception. And that's not true, naturally.

As a matter of fact, numerous studies all point in the same direction. About 50 per cent of the distinction in intelligence between people because of genetics, he says.

However, genes aren't destiny

For many years, the quest for particular intelligence genes showed unfruitful. Not long ago, nevertheless, genetic research studies have grown big and powerful enough to identify at least some of the hereditary foundations of IQ. Although each gene associated with intelligence has only a small effect in seclusion,