Select amongst the options given below, the skills fostered in technologically advanced societies for intellectual development.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Speed, minimal moves and mental manipulation
Option (1) Emotional competence — Incorrect. Emotional competence (self-regulation of feelings and emotions) is one of the facets of intelligence in the Indian tradition, and non-western cultures value social and emotional competence as signs of intelligent behaviour. It is not one of the skills technological societies foster.
Option (2) Social competence — Incorrect. Social competence (respect for social order, concern about others, recognising others’ perspectives) is another facet of intelligence in the Indian tradition. In less technologically developed societies, social and emotional skills in relating to people are valued.
Option (3) Speed, minimal moves and mental manipulation — Correct. Technologically advanced societies adopt child rearing practices that foster skills of generalisation and abstraction, speed, minimal moves, and mental manipulation among children. They promote what can be called technological intelligence.
Option (4) Sensitivity to context, understanding and discrimination — Incorrect. These make up cognitive capacity, a facet of intelligence identified in the Indian tradition, where intelligence (buddhi) also carries social and emotional parts. They are not the skills of speed and abstraction that technologically advanced societies foster.
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.…” “…the following competencies are identified as facets of intelligence in the Indian tradition :
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