PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Gie, Epigenetics
20 Feb 2017
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To distinguish between theories of ability: different ways of thinking about your capabilities. To relate to carol dweck"s work on ericsson"s theory. Dweck"s lectures start with: measuring your own implicit theory, little genius story. Koestner and wife go to evening dinner party. Show up and only the wife of friend is there. So husband is trying to reason with her. In other cultures (e. g. japan) most people believe fluid (european/north. They do something special in this class: math teacher identifies the 5 best students and calls them the little geniuses and gives them more enriched material. )n this class hopefully we"re closer to the fluid intelligence side. She explains husband has to talk to daughter b/c she"s sick and can"t go to school the next day and she"s upset b/c she loves school. She really doesn"t want to miss math class.
