Week 1-Module 2-Understanding intelligence.pdf

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1. YOGA FOR IQ Development
Subject Matter Experts:
Dr. H R Nagendra, Prof. M K Sridhar, Dr. Jincy Sundaran
Course Coordinator: Dr. Jincy Sundaran
Week –1: Module 2
Understanding Intelligence
Developed by: Swami Vivekananda Yoga AnusandhanaSamsthana, (S-VYASA),
Supported by: All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi

2. Learning Objectives
Define
intelligence
Understand the
various types of
intelligence
Role of
intelligence in
daily life

3. Intelligence
Capacity to learn, reason,
understand
Aptitude to grasp truths,
relationship, fact, meaning etc
Ability to think, learn from
experience, solve problems and
adapt to new situation

4. History
2300 years –Aristotle –
Reason
Ability to resist the urge
of our instincts
Recent –Charles Darwin
–degrees to reason –
mental powers
•Adaptability –the better a person is able to adapt in
their environment, the more intelligent they were.
Finally –Intelligence –
George Romanes

5. Definition
Biological –capacity to adjust (Stern)
Educational –ability to learn (Buckingham)
Empirical –emphasis on the practical results in intelligence
(Thorndike,Ballard, Freeman)
Alfred Binet –intelligence is judgement or common sense, initiative,the
ability to adapt oneself
Terman –ability to carry out abstract thinking
David Wechsler –aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act
purposefully,to think rationally, and to deal effectively with this
environment

6. Attributes
•Level–degree of difficulty
•Range–No. Of tasks/at a given
degree of difficulty
•Area–total No. Of situations at
each level (Range + level)
•Speed–Rapidity of response

7. Attributes
•I = C+A+V+D
•Verbal completion +
arithmetical situation +
vocabulary + verbal direction
Thorndike
•I = N+V+S+W+R+M+P
•Number + verbal +spatial
+word fluency + reasoning +
memory + perceptual
Thurstone

8. Common types
•Crystallized intelligence
•Vocabulary, knowledge, skills
•Fluid intelligence
•Reasoning and abstract
thinking

9. Kinds of
Intelligence
•Prof. Howard Gardner
Psychologist
Harvard University
Existentialist intelligence
Life, death, reality of
human existence

10. Intelligence Quotient
(IQ)
•A number used to express the relative
intelligence of a person
•Quantitative or Statistical
representation of an individual's score
on a standardized intelligence test

11. Intelligence –from the
tradition
•Pratiba(flash of light/revelation) in
Nyaya Vaisesika
•Prajna(highest and purest form of
wisdom) according toPatanjali
•Vak/Pasyantibuddhi(seeing
intelligence)inTantrikShastra
•Bhavas(quality of buddhi) in Samkhya
philosophy

12. •Buddhi–term used for intelligence refers
todetermination, mental effort,
knowledge,discrimination
•Types –subuddhi, kubuddhiand abuddhi
•Suktis/ Subhasitas–verses/good words
•Analysis ofsuktisand proverbs to discern the
natureof intelligencerevealed four dimensions
of intelligence
•Cognitive competence
•Social competence
•Entrepreneurial competence
•Emotional competence
1/3 of suktis–intelligence as control of emotions
Also, adaptive potentiality across different domains of life.

13. Role of Intelligence in
everyday life
•Cognition
•Concept formation
•Understanding
•Reasoning
•Creativity
•Planning
•Problem solving
•Communication
•Emotional Intelligence (EI) -related to IQ

14. Need for
IQdevelopment
Better Personality

15. IQ enhancement –An overview
EXERCISE SLEEP NUTRIENT
RICH FOOD
MUSIC READING SOCIALIZING
YOGA

16. Summary
Definition
Attributes
Types
Traditional overview
Role and ways to enhance

17. THANK YOU