And to cover the other european intelligence test, Wechsler defines it as "the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment" (1939)
-------------------------- John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 -------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart McKelvie" <smcke...@ubishops.ca> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:13:39 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [tips] Eurocentric? Dear Tipsters, Michael Sylvester wrote: >One way to look at a non-Eurocentric approach is to consider the example of intelligence. Intelligence to me is the ability to adapt to "existing" environments and should not be confined to what was deemed as intelligence by a few European based scholars.< Consider the 1916 definition of intelligence offered by Binet and Simon (who I think might just been qualified as "European"): " It seems to us that there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration o r the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical s ense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. To judge well, to comprehend well, to reason well, these are the essential activities of intelligence." Sincerely, Stuart ___________________________ __________________________ " F loreat L abore " Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) " Recti cultus pectora roborant " Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D ., Phone : 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax : 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy F loreat L abore " Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) Picture (Device Independent Bitmap)_______________________________________________________ --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
