PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intelligence Quotient, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, List Of Fallacies

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Reiicaion: reasoning errors in viewing abstract immaterial concepts as if it were concrete, in intelligence. Intelligence test: method of assessing an individual"s mental apitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores. Intelligence: mental quality consising of ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situaions. General intelligence: (g) general intelligence factors that according to spearman and others, underlies speciic mental abiliies and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test. Helps solve novel problems, do not correlate with evoluionary familiar situaions such as friends and social competence. Factor analysis: staisical procedure that ideniies clusters of related items and factors on a test, idenify diferent dimensions of performance that underlie a person"s total score. High verbal intelligence = high spaial and reasoning ability (g) = common skill set. Savant syndrome: condiion in which a person, otherwise limited in mental ability, has an excepional speciic skill, eg. computaion and drawing.