PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Intelligence Quotient, Neural Adaptation, Availability Heuristic

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill Atkinson

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Notes: the differential approach is devoted to tests and measures of individual differences in various psychological properties, factor analysis a correlation technique that determines associations among individual items on a test. If a group of test items correlate highly, factor analysis can provide evidence that they are measuring the same thing. Explain what intelligence is and how it is measured. Identify some controversies surrounding intelligence testing: backlash because they indicate that intelligence is somewhat innate, mental age stops (problem with iq) Topic 2 measuring intelligence and its heritability. Notes: some traits are inheritable, most are polygenic, and many are subject to epigenetic influences, epigenetics the study of heritable changes that occur without a change in the. Dna sequence: differences in intelligence correlates with differences in brain activity. Describe the types of errors that occur as a result of relying on these mental shortcuts: availability heuristic people estimate frequency on how quickly examples come to mind.