In the introduction to its discussion of intelligence, your text suggests that conceptions of intelligence vary cross-culturally. to the trukese of the south pacific, for example, intelligence may mean the ability to navigate on the open water without technological assistance; to a westerner, traveling along the most direct and quickest route by using a sextant and other navigational tools is likely to represent the most “intelligent” kind of behavior. nevertheless, one element of the understanding of intelligence that is consistent across culture is: