PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Standard Deviation, Egocentrism, Intelligence Quotient
19 Jan 2014
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The researcher edwin boring has provided perhaps the most straight forward definition of intelligence: intelligence is whatever intelligence tests measure. ( this falls to capture important cognitive features of intelligence. The cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with he demands of daily living. One task that captures the elements of our operational definition of intelligence is problem solving. Psychologists are interested in understanding the strategies you use to solve problems to gain insight into human intelligence wet. Ex. if someone tells you it"s going to rain then you will come up with the conclusion that the will soon be wet (come to conclious based on idea) If you wake up and realize the group is wet then will determine it rained over night ( generate idea based on fact) Out difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects to. > produces the same result if one person takes it multiple times.
