Define intelligence. Discuss the significance of heredity and environment in our
behavior.
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways including as one's capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability or inclination to perceive or deduce information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Within the discipline of psychology, various approaches to human intelligence have been adopted. The psychometric approach is especially familiar to the general public, as well as being the most researched and by far the most widely used in practical settings.
Both heredity and environment have important roles to play in shaping the personality of an individual. In psychology, this has been called as the nature vs nurture debate. Nature refers to the innate tendencies of the individual caused by the fact that he belongs to a particular
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