Three of the following students show the abilities named in one early psychologist's definition of intelligence. Identify the odd one out.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Divya deals effectively with daily life in the new town she has moved to.
Option (1) Ankit weighs the facts of a quarrel between two friends and gives a fair decision. — Incorrect. Weighing the facts and giving a fair decision is judging well. This is one of the three abilities in Alfred Binet's definition of intelligence.
Option (2) Bela grasps the meaning of a difficult new lesson on her first reading. — Incorrect. Getting the meaning of a hard lesson is understanding well, the second ability in Binet's definition.
Option (3) Chirag works out, point by point, why a club's plan will not succeed. — Incorrect. Working out step by step why a plan will fail is reasoning well, the third ability in Binet's definition.
Option (4) Divya deals effectively with daily life in the new town she has moved to. — Correct. The odd one out. Dealing effectively with a new environment comes from Wechsler's definition, which looks at intelligence by its value for adaptation to environment. Binet defined intelligence as the ability to judge well, understand well and reason well, and the other three students show these.
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