Ahmed Alotaibi
Reference:
The med guru your health first. (2007,April) (How to improve IQ of a child?)
Retrieved on 2011,April 8. From: http://www.themedguru.com/story/how-improve-iq-child.html
Summary:
Intelligence is expressed early and it contains what we should know or learns how to teach our children. First question is how the brain works? And what the brain consist? There is ten lessons that explain everything. Watch what you eat to be aware about your health. Make the brain bloom to focus easily. Nurture the intelligence because it is become with the baby and try to help him or her with that. Get the whole picture to about what is clear or not clear and how you make your child fun-filled. Never raise artificial obstacles or try letting him or her choose what ever he or she want to do with fun activities. Never restrain thinking in the name of discipline to teach them how to understand or how to learn. Use age -appropriate play methods that means think about his age before you play with him or her to know how to dealing with them, because it depends on the age of the child. Visual stimulus the right companion teaches the child how to know about the colors even if he is not able to talk fluently. Do not think math is equal to intelligence because there is a big difference between them. Move from concrete to the abstract that show which examples you should use with child.
Reaction:
These ways to improve our children is very useful because it shows how to be successful father or mother. When I read this article it makes me feel good to know how I improve my children in the future, because when I am a father I like to teach my children in these ways. I really like these ways or studies because it is help. It shows me the difference between the ages of the children, which is very important to teach them in the right way. It is not easy to raise your children in what you want, because they need some strategy to teach them. In short, I think I might to teach my children in these ways that I read in this article.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Who are smarter – men or women?
Reference
Cohen, Yi Hsin. (2010, October 16). Who are smarter – men or women? About intelligence. Retrieved April 12, 2011 from http://www.aboutintelligence.co.uk/who-smarter-men-women.html
Summary
In the article, the author talked about men and women, and who was smarter than the other. He mentioned that the psychologists agreed with no gender differences in intelligence; however, the research offers that men have mental advantages. Then he said one study showed that the men have larger brain with a 100g difference, but it was impossible to reach a conclusion about how intelligence itself was defined and measured because the size was not significant about intelligence. Then he talked about the women and men throughout the history, and he said that the women were underrepresented while the men were achieving distinction of mental ability, and this was returned to the poor educational opportunities women have had in the past. Moreover, although most top position required sacrifice of time, women tended to families more than career or achievements. He said that our society tended to value scientific achievement, and the people who are involved in science must be intelligent. Then he explained that there might be other reasons that women do not end up in the sciences. Then the author mentioned that IQ tests showed the average of women and men IQ to be equal. However, evidence showed that the women were able to achieve more than the men at the same IQ level. Then he said the IQ tests were still widely debated. Therefore, the tests could be said to measure a number of mental abilities. Finally, the author said that we could not forget that the men have more brain tissue, and they got higher IQ scores when we asked who are smarter. In fact, female students tended to get better grades in schools, and most people did not care about IQ scores on actual jobs.
Reaction
I enjoyed reading this article because it is interesting and after all of that research, the researchers could not define intelligence, and they could not find who is smarter, even with the evidence that they found. In this article, I do not agree with the author about some points; for example, when he said that women are under-represented in areas of achievement throughout past history, and many women choose to direct their energies towards family rather than career or other outside achievements. I think he talked about one society, but as I know, there were a lot of smart and successful women in Islamic culture who have shown up after prophet Mohamed showed up, and there were a lot of Islamic books that talked about them, and what they did in the education field and other fields. The second thing is about women when they take care about their families. That does not mean they are not intelligent. When the women take care of their home and children, and provide a good atmosphere in their home, that means they are smart, because the men cannot do that. Also, when the men find all this care in his house, they will feel comfortable and perform better in their job. Therefore, I can consider the women are smart when they do all these things which are providing good atmosphere, raising their children, and making their homework in better way. I think the men and children will be smart and successful when they find all of these, and these are related to the smart women.
BJ
Cohen, Yi Hsin. (2010, October 16). Who are smarter – men or women? About intelligence. Retrieved April 12, 2011 from http://www.aboutintelligence.co.uk/who-smarter-men-women.html
Summary
In the article, the author talked about men and women, and who was smarter than the other. He mentioned that the psychologists agreed with no gender differences in intelligence; however, the research offers that men have mental advantages. Then he said one study showed that the men have larger brain with a 100g difference, but it was impossible to reach a conclusion about how intelligence itself was defined and measured because the size was not significant about intelligence. Then he talked about the women and men throughout the history, and he said that the women were underrepresented while the men were achieving distinction of mental ability, and this was returned to the poor educational opportunities women have had in the past. Moreover, although most top position required sacrifice of time, women tended to families more than career or achievements. He said that our society tended to value scientific achievement, and the people who are involved in science must be intelligent. Then he explained that there might be other reasons that women do not end up in the sciences. Then the author mentioned that IQ tests showed the average of women and men IQ to be equal. However, evidence showed that the women were able to achieve more than the men at the same IQ level. Then he said the IQ tests were still widely debated. Therefore, the tests could be said to measure a number of mental abilities. Finally, the author said that we could not forget that the men have more brain tissue, and they got higher IQ scores when we asked who are smarter. In fact, female students tended to get better grades in schools, and most people did not care about IQ scores on actual jobs.
Reaction
I enjoyed reading this article because it is interesting and after all of that research, the researchers could not define intelligence, and they could not find who is smarter, even with the evidence that they found. In this article, I do not agree with the author about some points; for example, when he said that women are under-represented in areas of achievement throughout past history, and many women choose to direct their energies towards family rather than career or other outside achievements. I think he talked about one society, but as I know, there were a lot of smart and successful women in Islamic culture who have shown up after prophet Mohamed showed up, and there were a lot of Islamic books that talked about them, and what they did in the education field and other fields. The second thing is about women when they take care about their families. That does not mean they are not intelligent. When the women take care of their home and children, and provide a good atmosphere in their home, that means they are smart, because the men cannot do that. Also, when the men find all this care in his house, they will feel comfortable and perform better in their job. Therefore, I can consider the women are smart when they do all these things which are providing good atmosphere, raising their children, and making their homework in better way. I think the men and children will be smart and successful when they find all of these, and these are related to the smart women.
BJ
Thursday, April 14, 2011
He's Not as Smart as He Thinks
Reference
Raymond, J. (2008, January 23). He’s not as smart as he thinks. Newsweek. Retrieved March 30, 2011 from http://www.newsweek.com
Summary
In the article, the author talked about the difference between men and women. He mentioned that the men thought they are smarter than the women, but the researchers proved that they were equal in terms of IQ. The writer made an interview with Adrian Furnham, a professor of psychology, to investigate about this subject. According to the author, the professor said that the men got higher score on some skills such as spatial awareness, but the women got higher score in language development and emotional intelligence. Moreover, 30 international studies proved that the men overstated their intelligence when the women underplay it. Also, he mentioned two factors that were affecting perception which are the male hubris and female humility, and distribution of IQ. He showed that the men and the women thought the men were smarter across generations. Also, they thought their sons were smarter than their daughters. He discussed how parents sent wrong messages to their children about their abilities. When the professor saw the results of some schools, he found that girls did better than the boys, but the men and women thought the opposite. He mentioned that the men were more confident about their skills, so they thought that they were more clever and smarter. According to the author, the abilities or effort increases self-esteem, so the self-esteem training and therapy are not a good idea. He mentioned that the people always have a strong feeling about intelligence and gender.
Reaction
I enjoyed this article because it is an interesting subject. Before I read this article, I thought that the men are more intelligent than the women because Saudi Arabia is a closed society, so the men are responsible about everything and the women just take care of the house and children. Therefore, the men are showing up their abilities to do everything, and the women just sit at home and do some little work, so the men become smarter than the women in this point, or this point shows you why some people think that the men are smarter than the women. After I read this article, I changed my mind, and I agreed with the author. Based on what I read, the men and women are equal. Moreover, some research studies show that the women are outperforming the men. In Saudi Arabia, you can find that the girls are doing better than the boys in the school, and this is similar to what the author said. Therefore, when you think about this topic, you will find that the men are intelligent in some things and the women are intelligent in other things, so the results will be equal between the men and the women. The last thing that I want to mention is arrogance. We do not have to be arrogant even if we are smarter than the other, but we could be more confident about our IQ. That is not wrong. In conclusion, I believe that if the men are smarter than the women, there will not be successful women, but that is not true because there are a lot of successful women who lead the world in different fields. There is an Arabic proverb that says “there is a great woman behind every great man”.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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