Chapter 9

So after reading chapter 9 I found a lot of what this chapter had to said very interesting.  I never realized how much intelligence and language had in common.  For our discussion of this topic we had to take a IQ test and I scored 124 on it which meant I'm over average with intelligence. To me I'm not that smart I've always had to over work to pass my classes. To me the study's that the different psychology's have done to  study the different areas of intelligence are more like studying common sense then really intelligence, but then again intelligence has to do with common sense. Which I never though any of those things had to really do with intelligence until I read this chapter. I'm finding the more and more I read this psychology book the more I get into this subject and relate it to my life and others and it has even given me a new outlook on something's which is awesome. Another thing I though was cool in this area was language. I have a family member who was born deaf and he has gone to special schools he's whole life and he did learn how to talk and read lips.  After reading the area about language and how some people never learn how to talk is just crazy to me but it was cool to read about those cases and get to understand how and why this could happen to a person and how we only have so long to learn how to use language before that time frame is lost for good. I'm really starting to enjoy this class and get into the whole psychology way of thinking (for the most part) and now the class is almost over with   :(.