PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stress Management, Standard Deviation, Stereotype Threat
3 Mar 2017
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Trying to not see if the person has had an education but what they would do with it. Crystallized - knowledge you"ve picked up; store of knowledge of the nature of the world; math rules, words and language, where things are; what you know. Fluid - what our working memory is doing; the ability to solve novel problems that depend relatively little on stored knowledge or the ability to learn; thinking on your feet; what you can do. Used to consider intelligence was determined by size of skull or brain but that has been debunked. Identi cation of children who will need academic support. Early in his research piaget was involved; this was when he got inspired to study kids" funny mistake. Test was looking for the mental age of the question based on who could solve those questions. Kids went into the test and answers questions until they keep getting them wrong; this is their mental age.
