Advantages and Disadvantages of and IQ What is intelligence? Sattler describes a famous symposium conducted in 1921 at which 13 psychologists gave 13 different definitions of intelligence (1992, pp. 44-45). Some of these definitions are paraphrased below: Intelligence is. . . the tendency to take and maintain a direction. . . judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative. . . everything intellectual can be reduced to . . . relations or correlates. . . adjustment or adaptation to the environment. . . global capacity to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal …showed first 75 words of 719 total…

…showed last 75 words of 719 total…the primary way by preventing the classes from hardening into social order. <Tab/>Some disadvantages to IQ tests are that Intelligence tests limit our understanding of intelligence and sample only a limited number of conditions under which intelligent behavior is revealed. It also fails to measure fundamental processes. IQs are misused as measure of instinctive capacity. IQs arrange children into stereotypical categories and limit their freedom to choose fields of study.