I'm not including the naturally gifted people with high IQ , but the general population. Isn't memorzation and comprehension 99% of intelligence? If you agree, than why are we so critical of people who maybe are weak in this area and label them stupid?
2007-10-09 18:18:48 · 5 answers · asked by mna 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
To a certain degree yes. But It also has a great deal to do with how your brain processes information. take in fact a person with A.D.D. they can be very intelligent but yet seem stupid in the fact that they are processing so many things at once it jumbles their thoughts. Intelligence is a discipline and you have to train your mind from an early age to learn and grasp information.
2007-10-09 18:25:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree, most people regardless of IQ can memorize massive amounts of stuff, with a bit of discipline. Comprehension is not the same as memorization. Then there are the skills of generalization and analysis. Generalization being the ability to see relationships between dissimilar things and analysis being the ability to break things down to component parts.
It isn't the ability to remember or even the level of overall IQ that we are critical of. What it is, is the lack of trying to understand or the pure refusal to actually learn that is looked down on. For example creationists use the lowest level possible of knowledge to try to support their claims, even thought the facts are readily available to them.
2007-10-09 18:29:33 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL. I'm the model that disproves that theory! I have ADD and short term memory issues. I test in the top 2%. However I excel in higher reasoning activities. I am very good at processing information visually.
I know people with better memories than I and better attention to detail. They tend to be better in formal learning settings which makes them better students. I learn better in nonconventional ways. I tend to pick up many concepts faster than most.
2007-10-09 18:56:47 · answer #3 · answered by mediahoney 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good memory helps in being intelligent. But there's more to being intelligent...it involves problem solving.
2007-10-10 01:07:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hardly
2007-10-10 02:18:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋