PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Bell Curve, Chiropractic, Lewis Terman

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Emotional-what state someone is in: how the react. People are accurate in judging a stranger"s intelligence (as measured by formal intelligence tests) after very brief exposure. Hearing the person read a few short sentences, hearing the person speak freely. Intelligence is very complex and there are many types. Generally, the ability to come up with efficient solutions to the problems of everyday life. Don"t need education to have practical intelligence. A way of referring to a person"s underlying general capacity to process complex info to perform well on a wide variety of tasks (mental, manual) It involves more than just learning from books. Thought to be measured by intelligence tests (e. g. : wais) Originally computed by comparing a child"s score against the scores of other children. Although the label of iq is still used today it technically no longer exists. Makes sense in children but not adults.