Intelligence is an arbitrary term humans assign to stuff subjectively.
Take out the "human" and it's all just algos on a scale of complexity.
psychology also has favored behavioralism for a long time, such that if something displays the behavior, it is likely the same thing as that which we believe/know has the behavior already
It's come to be foundational to much of western thinking beyond psychology
A topical example is a portion of society believing that the top Ai researchers should be setting domestic political and economic policy, foreign affairs, and chem/bio weapon controls... instead of the experts in those fields. We extrapolate their above average capabilities in building Ai into an artificial general intelligence where it is not due.
Agreed. Take human out and any system capable of doing an if-else is intelligent to a certain degree.