Psychology/ The human mind.

I'm absolutely floored with fascination of the brain.

The way people think, How you can manipulate the mind, or influence it.
How defiant the mind can be against a suggestion or comment.

There is a new theory that there are several different types of intelligence.

Article

(if you hit the next button at the bottom of the article, it goes on to explain the kinds of intelligence proposed)

What Intelligence do you think you have (you can have more than one)?
And do you think this theory is plausable, or just a twist on personality and hobbies?

I, personally, saw myself in 5 of the 8 types.

Logical, Linguistic, Musical, Intrapersonal, and Interpersonal (less so than the others).

:O i love Psychology......its so amazing and fascinating how different parts of your life affect you and everything that makes people different

i am doing it for A levels and hopefully moving on to uni with it

nice to see someone else tht has a passion for it

I like psychology because I don't understand people.

I most definately have a lot of introspective intelligence,
a good amount of musical intelligence,
and some linguistic intelligence as well?

It's hard to say. I can understand where skeptics come in with their "too broad" comments.

I took psychology, and I think I understand alot more about people now. It IS fascinating. You learn about how people develop both physically and emotionally.

I'm currently undertaking a psychology class
There are many different theorists who's opinion differ with personality
Such as the triarchic theory
But intelligence can be defined as;

The ability to interperate, interact, and learn from ones environment

Simple
But intelligence is a hypothetical construct which makes it not so simple to define
The old IQ tests written by Binet and very different from the new IQ tests written by Wechsler
And the difinition has been changed and morphed over and over again though time

I would write more but im tired and just woke up
Oh and I apologise if I confused one theorist with another, as I said I am very tired

No worries, I wouldn't know the difference between the Theorists anyway.

I don't think that definition is completely right.

I don't think you have to learn all types of intelligence, some just exist in your subconscious.
Like when your a baby, the ability to open your eyes and blink.
It's just human instinct.

Nation wrote:

No worries, I wouldn't know the difference between the Theorists anyway.

I don't think that definition is completely right.

I don't think you have to learn all types of intelligence, some just exist in your subconscious.
Like when your a baby, the ability to open your eyes and blink.
It's just human instinct.

The definition is just the most commonly accepted definition among psychologists today
There are also three levels of conciousness
Concious, Subconcious and Unconcious
Im not quite sure where instincts fit into intelligence, but it might have something to od with the id, ego, and superego
The id is the intelligence/personality we are born with
Basically it focuses on whatever it needs, and will use any means nessecary to get it
Its a hard subject
And I'm having trouble concentrating at the moment
But I'm enjoying discussing it

hmmm... This discussion is making me want to go do some research.
So theres sub levels to intelligence....
Are there anymore you know of?
Or is that the extent of agreeable knowledge by Psychologists?

Nation wrote:

hmmm... This discussion is making me want to go do some research.
So theres sub levels to intelligence....
Are there anymore you know of?
Or is that the extent of agreeable knowledge by Psychologists?

Well the id, ego and superego is more related to personality
But intelligence in babies

There are theories for different levels of intelligence

Such as the triarchic theory which is compromised of Contextual, Compontential, and Experiential intelligences

And According to another theorist there are many different realms of intelligence like; Musical, Spacial, linguistic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, logical/mathmatical and a few others which I can't bring to mind at the moment

Metal wrote:

Nation wrote:

hmmm... This discussion is making me want to go do some research.
So theres sub levels to intelligence....
Are there anymore you know of?
Or is that the extent of agreeable knowledge by Psychologists?

Well the id, ego and superego is more related to personality
But intelligence in babies

There are theories for different levels of intelligence

Such as the triarchic theory which is compromised of Contextual, Compontential, and Experiential intelligences

And According to another theorist there are many different realms of intelligence like; Musical, Spacial, linguistic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, logical/mathmatical and a few others which I can't bring to mind at the moment

*Points to link in first post* ^^^

Thats what inspired the post in the first place.
This (the article) is the theory that makes most sense to me because how can you have personality without the intelligence?
How can you know how to act without thinking about it, however short the thought is?

Well; personality is defined as:

An induviduals unique and relativley consistant group of characteristics that determine patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavious in a wide range of situations.

So yes
You are very right in your assumption that intelligence is very closley related to intelligence

Metal wrote:

Well the id, ego and superego is more related to personality
But intelligence in babies

There are theories for different levels of intelligence

Such as the triarchic theory which is compromised of Contextual, Compontential, and Experiential intelligences

And According to another theorist there are many different realms of intelligence like; Musical, Spacial, linguistic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, logical/mathmatical and a few others which I can't bring to mind at the moment

:O i am so proud of myself i know what you are talking about

only cause i am currently taking Psychology for A levels ^_^

XxKittyxX wrote:

Metal wrote:

Well the id, ego and superego is more related to personality
But intelligence in babies

There are theories for different levels of intelligence

Such as the triarchic theory which is compromised of Contextual, Compontential, and Experiential intelligences

And According to another theorist there are many different realms of intelligence like; Musical, Spacial, linguistic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, logical/mathmatical and a few others which I can't bring to mind at the moment

:O i am so proud of myself i know what you are talking about

only cause i am currently taking Psychology for A levels ^_^

Haha I know how you feel
Mostof the time I have no idea what I'm talking about
I guess I just got lucky with this one =P

My favourite part about psychology is development of the brain. Like the change and development mentally from baby to adult. Its astounding, and I loved reading on Piaget's theory, he did alot of work with cognetive abilities of children, and such. Its really interesting you should search up Piaget.

Casper. wrote:

My favourite part about psychology is development of the brain. Like the change and development mentally from baby to adult. Its astounding, and I loved reading on Piaget's theory, he did alot of work with cognetive abilities of children, and such. Its really interesting you should search up Piaget.

I think I will search him.

I've never really thought about the development, more about an age group as a whole.
I guess I'm about to learn a crap load.

Casper. wrote:

My favourite part about psychology is development of the brain. Like the change and development mentally from baby to adult. Its astounding, and I loved reading on Piaget's theory, he did alot of work with cognetive abilities of children, and such. Its really interesting you should search up Piaget.

Ah I will
Thanks Casper =)
What about Freud's psychosexual stages of development?
Oral, Anal, Phallic, (Latency), Genital

Metal wrote:

Casper. wrote:

My favourite part about psychology is development of the brain. Like the change and development mentally from baby to adult. Its astounding, and I loved reading on Piaget's theory, he did alot of work with cognetive abilities of children, and such. Its really interesting you should search up Piaget.

Ah I will
Thanks Casper =)
What about Freud's psychosexual stages of development?
Oral, Anal, Phallic, (Latency), Genital

I think maybe I skipped straight to Latency and never left it.



Freud was a weird guy.... I don't think that "oral fixations" should instantly be assumed to be sexual. The human mouth has other uses than for sex.

WhiteDemonist wrote:

Metal wrote:

Casper. wrote:

My favourite part about psychology is development of the brain. Like the change and development mentally from baby to adult. Its astounding, and I loved reading on Piaget's theory, he did alot of work with cognetive abilities of children, and such. Its really interesting you should search up Piaget.

Ah I will
Thanks Casper =)
What about Freud's psychosexual stages of development?
Oral, Anal, Phallic, (Latency), Genital

I think maybe I skipped straight to Latency and never left it.



Freud was a weird guy.... I don't think that "oral fixations" should instantly be assumed to be sexual. The human mouth has other uses than for sex.

Freud was weird
In all honesty he was just a horny little german man
But some of his ideas and theories are brilliant