Intelligence is therefore partly hereditary, but mainly consists of different skills “, says Marlies Tierens, teacher of psychodiagnostics at Thomas More’s Applied Psychology course in Antwerp in” The world today “on Radio 1.
“The two most important skills of intelligence are to remember learned knowledge well – we call this crystallized intelligence – and to reason well,” says Tierens. “In a quiz like” De Slimste Mens “is often asked about knowledge about current affairs. People who know a lot, they can remember something they have seen or learned once for a long time. Then you perform well in” De Slimste Mens ” “But your reasoning skills also play a role, especially when looking for connections in the puzzle round. Or in general: if you quickly realize which keywords are being searched for, you score many points in little time.”
In the Leyers family, those intelligence skills are clearly well developed due to a combination of hereditary factors and upbringing. “The more things you come into contact with, the more you will know, and the better you can make connections between that knowledge. In that sense, you can train your intelligence to a certain extent. Although you need to know specifically for” The Smartest Man “. what kind of questions you can expect: otherwise there is no getting started “, Tierens concludes.
Listen here to the integral conversation with psychodiagnostics teacher Marlies Tierens in “De Wereld Today”:
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