PSY 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Problem Solving, Quickness, Working Memory
17 Dec 2015
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Cognitive: focus on formal training such as school, apprenticeship. Cognitive potential: natural maturation and academic achievement. Cognitive: focus is on job related/ specific skills. Cog potential: focus on developing job specific skills. Peak of family responsibilities even with adult children, elderly parents. Trajectory: some are increasing, some decreasing and some maintain: variety in trajectory compared to the other two groups. Interactions are treatment based. development and more specifically about the decline of their physiology. Cog potential: focus on minimizing cognitive decline. Defines intelligence as ability to make judgement. Broader than just defining it as judgement. Wisc: 6 years - 0 months to 16 years - 11 months. What the general public thinks of as iq. *don"t need to know the scale for infants. 17 is measured as an adult (measured as start of adulthood. Points are scored on how quickly you answer correctly. Used as part (not the only method used) to determine intellectual disabilities.
