Triarchic Culture Theory

Everyone has different theories of what intelligence is. These theories can vary from one culture to another. There has been numerous researches on the effect of culture on human intelligence. These researchers believed that culture plays a sufficient role in learning to understand intelligence. What does culture mean to you? Culture can mean a varied of things, but in this context it is the way of life of a group of people, in which can include food, social interaction (organization) language, education, religion, ways of raising children etc. According to John Ogbu, “Culture consists of four main concepts. These concepts are customary behaviors, code, artifacts and institution. Customary behaviors focus just on the group of people such how …show more content…
In this theory, he believed that intelligence is defined as the ability to achieve success in life based on one's personal standards and within one's sociocultural context. The focus was that intelligence was entirely cognitive in nature, with emphasizes on information processing. Sternberg believed that in the Information processing there are underlying common set of universal mental processes in intelligence. There are mental processes needed to reach these solutions are the same. The Triarchic theory is divided into three aspects of intelligence. The first aspect is analytical intelligence, in this aspect it involves the ability to analyze, critique, evaluate, judge, assess or compare and contrast. () in this aspect deals with familiar kinds of judgments to be made. Using analogies is a good example (Lawyer : Client . Doctor: Patient). When using analogies you are encoding the information. You have to use each word to make inferences of what the information is trying to tell us. This aspect is broken into subtheories known as componential theory, metacomponents, performance components, and knowledge-acquisition. “Metacomponents, or executive processes, enable a person to plan what to do, monitor …show more content…
For example, researchers and professors achieve success through different skills rather than through a single process that works for all of them. It is important that we learn to adapt to our environment, and also to modify that environment to fit you, known as shaping. If you can find a new environment that is better for your desires, values and skills can become a better match for you. There is not a lot of people who can have equal opportunities in being able to adapt to, shape an select