Darwin believed that the brain has evolved due to natural and sexual selection.
Wallace thought differently - “the human mind and brain are composed of specific selection pressures… brain cannot be understood in terms of specific selection pressures”.
There was a dispute over inherent constraint vs. developmental influence.
In other words, is a person generally smart because he has super brains inherently, or because his brains develop over time through different experiences?
Plasticity: the balance of inherent constrain & developmental experience that results in the ability to adapt brain and cognitive systems and processes to socially and ecologically salient information.
Thurstone found that performance on paper-pencil ability tests tended to cluster into a set of primary abilities:
Verbal comprehension, Word Fluency, Numerical Facility, Spacial Abilities, Perceptual Speed, Memory, and Reasoning.
THIS IS THE CORE DOMAINS OF HUMAN INTELLECTUAL COMPETENCY.
Wallace thought differently - “the human mind and brain are composed of specific selection pressures… brain cannot be understood in terms of specific selection pressures”.
There was a dispute over inherent constraint vs. developmental influence.
In other words, is a person generally smart because he has super brains inherently, or because his brains develop over time through different experiences?
Plasticity: the balance of inherent constrain & developmental experience that results in the ability to adapt brain and cognitive systems and processes to socially and ecologically salient information.
Thurstone found that performance on paper-pencil ability tests tended to cluster into a set of primary abilities:
Verbal comprehension, Word Fluency, Numerical Facility, Spacial Abilities, Perceptual Speed, Memory, and Reasoning.
THIS IS THE CORE DOMAINS OF HUMAN INTELLECTUAL COMPETENCY.