Conference Session

Track Special Topic: Intelligence Technical Session 14

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Turhan Kendall Carroll, Ohio State University; Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Intelligence

construct of intelligence. In this section we discuss the historyof intelligence, how it has been used, and the fact that it is culturally constructed.A Brief History of IntelligenceThe word ‘intelligence,’ at its roots, refers to an innate, general, and cognitive capacity [7]. Inother words, intelligence was historically considered to be a capacity that was bestowed onto itsrecipient at birth, which was applicable in a wide variety of circumstances, and was separate fromaffective measures. Alfred Binet’s work to measure intelligence in French school children in theearly 20th century is considered to be pivotal in the history of intelligence and its measurement [8].Unlike many of his colleagues who believed that the new and developing intelligence