The societies adopting child-rearing practices that foster skills of generalization and abstraction, speed, minimal moves, and mental manipulation among children tend to promote a type of behaviour which can be called:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Technological intelligence
Option (1) Concrete intelligence — Incorrect. The term is used for the ability to deal with things and objects, handling tools and materials in practical tasks. The question’s skills, generalisation and abstraction, are the very opposite of concrete handling (see the Note).
Option (2) Social intelligence — Incorrect. It means the ability to understand people and act wisely in relationships. Speed, minimal moves and mental manipulation are skills of working on problems, not of dealing with people (see the Note).
Option (3) Technological intelligence — Correct. Technologically advanced societies adopt child-rearing practices that foster generalisation and abstraction, speed, minimal moves and mental manipulation, and so promote technological intelligence. People there are well-versed in attention, observation, analysis, performance, speed and achievement orientation, the very skills Western intelligence tests look for.
Option (4) Emotional intelligence — Incorrect. It is a set of skills underlying the accurate appraisal, expression and regulation of emotions, the feeling side of intelligence. It is not produced by training in abstraction and speed.
Note: The concepts in Options (1) and (2), ‘concrete intelligence’ and ‘social intelligence’, are not in NCERT (2025-26); explained here for the benefit of the students.
NCERT (2025-26): “Culture and Intelligence … Technologically advanced societies adopt child rearing practices that foster skills of generalisation and abstraction, speed, minimal moves, and mental manipulation among children. These societies promote a type of behaviour, which can be called technological intelligence. In these societies, persons are well-versed in skills of attention, observation, analysis, performance, speed, and achievement orientation. Intelligence tests developed in western cultures look precisely for these skills in an individual.…” “Emotional Intelligence … Emotional intelligence is a set of skills that underlie accurate appraisal, expression, and regulation of emotions. It is the feeling side of intelligence.…” |