PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Confirmation Bias, Availability Heuristic, Working Memory Training
14 Oct 2016
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Edward boring: stated definition of intelligence is whatever intelligence tests measure important info, and cope w the demands of daily living (sternberg"s definition) Intelligence: the cognitive ability of individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember: made of 2 parts: ability to perform cognitive tasks & capacity to learn and adapt, test quality depends on: Reliability: extent to which repeated testing produces constant results. Important bc psychologists assume that intelligence is a static and internal quality. Validity: extent to which a test is actually measuring what the researcher claims to be measuring. Adapted by lewis terman, who renamed it the stanford-binet test: charles spearman: believed in single type of intelligence, which he named g Advocated that only people with minimum level of g should be allowed to vote and reproduce: howard gardner: proposed multiple intelligences theory made of 8 types of intelligence: verbal, spatial, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, mathematical, naturalistic. Original test modelled on binet"s scale, but has since evolved.
