PSYC 100 Lecture 1: Week 13 Lecture Notes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jeremy G. Stewart

Document Summary

Week 13 lecture notes - psyc 100 winter term. Cognitive psychology - basics of intelligence and heuristics. You "know it when you see (hear) it" Tend to think well on the spot to overcome obstacles. Underlines successful performance on a wide variety of tasks (verbal, quantitative, etc. ) Linked to many clusters that can be analyzed via factor analysis. Highly correlated with g when measured with other tasks. Originally computed by comparing a child"s score against the score. Originally computed by comparing a child"s score against the score of other children from a similar population but of different ages. Adults" mental development does not change year by year as does children"s mental development. A person"s mental age eventually stops, but their chronological age does not. Iq scores are compared to those of others in the same age group. Rules of thumb that let us think quickly and simply.