Part I: Concept of Intelligence according to Modern Science and Ancient Texts Part II: A Comparative Study of Three Different Yoga Modules on Intelligence Quotient in Normal School Children

Abstract

Intelligence has been described (on Microsoft Encarta 98) as the ‘capacity to learn or to understand’. However, Gross (1) reminds us that "The concept of intelligence is extremely difficult to define, despite being one of the most intensively researched aspects of individual difference and having such practical significance". ‘General Intelligence’ is a term first coined by Spearman in 1923 (2). It is the idea that there is a general intelligence opposed to much different intelligence. The concept that there is one intelligence means that it can be easily measured; this is the reason that Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests are used in many situations.