Abstract

Recently there has been a hot dispute around practical intelligence(PI) and tacit knowledge(TK). Sternberg and his colleagues. cognitive psychologists. have proposed PI as the alternative of traditional intelligence and TK as the major component of PI from the beginning of 1980's. Some industrial/organizational psychologists presented a harsh critique against PI and TK. They argue that PI is a broad conceptualization of TK and TK is a kind of knowledge which has been well studied in I/O area. On the other hand Frank Landy argues for Sternberg and insist that Sternberg's ideas should be imported to I/O area. The author tries to establish a certain consistency between PI and TK by introducing implicit learning as an intervening variable. That is, PI facilitates implicit cognitive functioning such as implicit learning and TK is ascertained as a result.