 | 1921 - 68 páginas
...helpful viewpoint from which to consider intelligence is that it is equivalent to the capacity to learn. An individual possesses intelligence in so far as...or can learn to adjust himself to his environment. In a sense this conception is substantially the same as that quoted in the definition first given.... | |
 | Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.) - 1921 - 136 páginas
...ascribe this general superiority to tha central directive power which we term intelligence. Colvin: An individual possesses intelligence in so far as he has learned, or ca learn to adjust himself to his environment. Dearborn: The commonly accepted definition . . . the... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, Howard Crosby Warren, John Broadus Watson, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Carroll Cornelius Pratt, Theodore Mead Newcomb - 1922 - 522 páginas
...Freeman, loc. cit., pp. 133-134. Colvin's earmarks of intelligence as that which an individual possesses 'in so far as he has learned, or can learn to adjust himself to his environment,' 1 is, as he suggests, very much like the received definition among psychologists and probably savors... | |
 | Rudolf Pintner - 1923 - 424 páginas
...individual is intelligent in proportion as he is able to carry on abstract thinking." — Terman. " An individual possesses intelligence in so far as...can learn, to adjust himself to his environment." — Colvin. " Intelligence is intellect plus knowledge." — Henmon. " Intelligence seems to be a biological... | |
 | Harlan Cameron Hines - 1923 - 168 páginas
...is able to carry on abstract thinking." Colvin further extends Terman's definition by saying that " an individual possesses intelligence in so far as...can learn, to adjust himself to his environment." Pintner modifies Stern's definition to read: "Intelligence is the ability of the individual to adapt... | |
 | Abraham Aaron Roback - 1923 - 296 páginas
...as is also Freeman's view.8 Colvin's earmark of intelligence as that which an individual possesses "in so far as he has learned, or can learn to adjust himself to his environment,"4 is, as he suggests, very much like the received definition among psychologists and probably... | |
 | Florence Mabel Teagarden - 1924 - 134 páginas
...individual is intelligent in proportion as he is able to carry on abstract thinking." According to Colvin, "An individual possesses intelligence in so far as...can learn, to adjust himself to his environment." In another connection and with MacPhail, Colvin says [32], "The intelligence of the individual is the... | |
 | Thomas Denison Wood, Clifford Lee Brownell - 1925 - 614 páginas
...power of good responses from the point of view of truth or fact." — THORNDIKE. 78. Intelligence " An individual possesses intelligence in so far as...can learn, to adjust himself to his environment." — COLOIN. 79. Intelligence " Intelligence is intellect plus knowledge." — HENMON. 80. Intelligence... | |
 | Charles Edward Skinner, Ira Morris Gast, Harley Clay Skinner - 1926 - 882 páginas
...conditions of life." ... In a very true sense intelligence is mental adaptability to environment. . . . An individual possesses intelligence in so far as...or can learn to adjust himself to his environment. . . . It must be remembered that even the ability to think in a sustained and logical manner is based... | |
 | Rudolf Pintner - 1923 - 426 páginas
...individual is intelligent in proportion as he is able to carry on abstract thinking." — Terman. ' ' An individual possesses intelligence in so far as he has learned, or can learn, to adjust IMmself to his environment." — Colvin. " Intelligence is intellect plus knowledge." — \Henmon.... | |
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An individual possesses intelligence in so far as he has learned, or can learn, to adjust himself to his environment. 
