1. Teaching Children Through Play
Most people recognize that there are some people with fantastic memories, some with mechanical expertise, some with musical genius, some with good vocabularies, etc., etc. ... For example, if French and English speaking Canadians takes vocabulary tests and the test is in English, this is limiting the vocabulary of the French speaking Canadian. ...
Once I was taught to learn meanings and examples of vocabulary words, yet no matter how much time I spent I just could not remember them, and now I understand which I did not before; the reason why I could never learn them was because I did not wish to learn, and did not put my heart into it. ...
Suppose you are compiling a battery of psychological assessment measures for selection of students at a South African tertiary institution. You decide to include a group test of intelligence (based on the psychometric approach) but given the multicultural context in which you are working, you also a...
Definitional problems There is no consensus amongst psychologists on the definition on intelligence because it is such a broad issue and a single unique definition is probably impossible. Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines intelligence as "the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's envi...
