PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neural Coding, Personal Flotation Device, Literacy Test
18 Apr 2020
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Learning provides flexible tools for interacting with the environment. Neural encoding makes learning an enduring change in behaviour: a single neuron, a network of 302 neurons. Intelligences: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information and cope with the demands on daily living. Functional fixedness: a bias limiting views to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used. Come up with multiple uses for each object. 3 doors behind u 2 have goats 1 has a million dollars. Louisians literacy test, 30 questions, 10 minutes , all answers must be correct or you wouldn"t be able to vote. Consider 3 tests of intelligence: are these tests reliable. If you wrote the same test multiple times: are these tests valid. Testing understanding over intelligence: what else night need to be included in a test that measures intelligence. Bounded rationally: cognitive limitations prevent humans from being fully rational, we are not robots.
