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Introduction Within this essay I will be considering four main topics within Psychology which are Memory Context Intelligence Personality Each of these areas are important when looking at Psychology within the workplace due to the impact that they can have on the way that act or the type of training that they need The two areas that I will be discussing further are intelligence and personality the reason that I have chosen to focus on these two are because I think that they are the two that could have the biggest effect on the way that people work and the type of careers that they initially choose for themselves 2 Intelligence 2 1 What is Intelligence There are many ways that intelligence can be defined Sternberg 2004 p 72 states that intelligence is is the capacity to learn from experience and adaptation to one's environment however there are some important implications with this definition which are that people need to pay attention to cultural differences In order for this definition to work it means that people need to be able to adapt from one environment to another successfully There are two ways that culture can be distinguished which are Individualistic cultures e g United Kingdom and the USA which focuses more on individuals been responsible for their own behaviours and actions Eysenck 2016 Collective cultures e g Asian and African cultures which emphasise on an entire group rather than a specific individual Eysenck 2016
