Is Your Thinking a Tangled Mess? It Might Be Missing This Key Element | Intelligence Test
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What is IQ? Do we often equate high intelligence with someone being smart?
In fact, many people confuse ability with intelligence. They often feel that someone is less capable simply because their IQ is low, which is a misunderstanding.
IQ (Intelligence Quotient) is a standard for measuring a person's level of intelligence.
Different psychologists have different definitions of 'intelligence.' There are dozens of definitions, some define it as an adaptability, some as a learning ability, and some as an abstract thinking ability, even some scholars say: 'Intelligence is just the result of intelligence tests'
However, now, most psychologists tend toIntelligence is the ability to analyze problems and solve problems, including observation ability, memory ability, attention ability, imagination ability and thinking ability, etc. It is a combination of multiple abilities.
Mark Snyderman from Harvard University surveyed 1020 psychologists, and 99.3% of them believe that abstract reasoning is the most important component of intelligence.
In other words, your abstract reasoning ability affects your IQ.
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What kind of thinking do people with strong abstract reasoning have?
In the celebrity reality show '' which is claimed to test the intelligence of celebrities, we can find several celebrities with strong abstract reasoning ability. For example, Siban in the show can carry the whole show with his reasoning ability.
Remember the 'All Because of Beauty' episode, in which the face of the deceased was completely burned, Siban discovered the deceased's ID card and inferred the truth that the murderer had plastic surgery and killed to change identities through the photo name and other information.
Many people might think it's just a coincidence, or that the crew arranged it. But in fact, being able to see the essence of things and draw inferences in the face of many distracting information and time tasks, is a kind of strong abstract reasoning.
Imagine that we have many people around us who are very meticulous and have amazing investigation and counter-reconnaissance capabilities during escape rooms and werewolf kill games.
If you still don't understand this ability, it's okay, let's do a small experiment.
I will list three characters now, please pay attention:
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Good, what is your first reaction to these three characters?
I will give you several cases for example
If you are a Chinese basic education adult, then your first reaction might be to Li Bai's poem and then immediately think of '', and you can also associate it with the scene depicted in the poem, and even its rhetorical techniques and the author's biography. But if you don't have experience of training, then the foreigner may just think this three characters are just a mysterious oriental symbol, and they don't know the content of the poem.
If you are a Chinese 5, 6 years old child, your first reaction might be to recite the Tang poem, but when you ask him the meaning of the poem, he may not understand it.
If you are a Chinese foreigner who studies Chinese characters, you will pronounce the three characters, but you don't know the content of the poem.
If you are a foreigner who doesn't study Chinese characters, you will think that this is a mysterious oriental symbol, and you don't understand it at all.
Because we have experienced Tang poetry and Chinese language training, so we can quickly associate these three characters with poetry and scenes, even its rhetorical techniques and the author's biography. But if we don't have experience of training, then the foreigner may just think this three characters are just a mysterious oriental symbol, and they don't know the content of the poem.
Similarly, for some people, some things seem like ordinary symbols to them, without any relationship,
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