INTELLIGENCE AND ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior

Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior

Intelligence

There is so far a unique approach to the problem of intelligence. Intelligence is historically closely related with at least the following elements:

It is the ability to think and make connections between facts or concepts

It is the ability to solve everyday problems

It is the ability to create new problems

It is the ability to create products or provide services within their own cultural

Each of these entries contains different fields where intelligence involves daily or we can echo his presence. Under a rational perspective, comprehension and understanding are essential for solving problems. Our analytical way of proceeding leads us not only the results but significantly to the mechanisms leading to results. The ability and skill include intelligence (Sternberg, 2004). The experience can be richly interpreted in the light of intelligence, while, as discussed below, it feeds the mind.

Traditionally, intelligence has linked with the following capabilities:

To think and make connections between facts or concepts

To solve everyday problems

To generate new problems

To create products or provide services within their own cultural

During the thirties, Louis Leon Thurstone established at least seven primary skills of intelligence:

Verbal Comprehension

Perceptual Speed

Logical Reasoning

Numeracy

Memory

Word Fluency

Spatial Perception

Thirty years later, Cattell introduced the distinction between crystallized and fluid intelligence. Fluid intelligence involves an inherited ability to think and reason abstractly, and crystallized intelligence comes from experience and represents the degree of acculturation and learning and education (Richardson, 2000).

In 1985, Sternberg organized the different skills in three categories to describe intelligence:

Componential intelligence: ability to acquire and store information

Experiential intelligence: skill-based experience to select, encode, combine and compare data to make new "insight".

Contextual intelligence: adaptive behavior in the real world.

Adaptive Behavior

Adaptive behavior and skills refer to personal qualities associated with the ability to meet one's personal needs such as communication, self-care, socialization, etc. and those of others. Data from measures of adaptive behavior have used most commonly in assessment and intervention services for persons with mental retardation (Sternberg & Robert , 2000). However, the display of adaptive behaviors and skills is relevant to all persons. An important property of adaptive behavior is purposeful.

Here we mention some of the concepts that make sense take into account when modeling a nontrivial (intelligent) adaptive behavior. Attempts to model the motivations and their role in adaptive behavior in several different aspects have carried out by several authors. MS Burtsev and others have proposed and analyzed a model of evolutionary emergence of purposeful adaptive behavior, with special emphasis on the role of motivation in adaptive behavior (Khalfa & Jean, 1996).

Another concept that is natural to use predictive modeling in adaptive behavior is the "internal model". Indeed, if the animal can build its own internal model of the environment and its interaction with the environment, on the basis of this model, it can predict future events in the environment and the results of their actions and adequate use of these forecasts in their adaptive behavior. Moreover, with forecasts animal can make some "logical conclusions" based on his ...