PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Intelligence Quotient, Standardized Test
6 Apr 2020
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Chp 12: (chp15): aging and gender differences in cognition. That is, our ability to do things like retrieve information from memory improves as we age, but even within an age group there are differences in ability that are associated with intelligence. In their book called the bell curve, hernstein and murray argued that there is a general cognitive ability, and that this ability is relatively stable over the course of a person"s lifetime. More crucially, they argue that this ability is what we are actually talking about when we talk about someone"s score on a standardized test of academic aptitude, like an. They believe that if an iq test is properly administered, it does not bias against social, economic, ethnic or racial groups and that intelligence is something that is largely inherited from our parents. In contrast, gardner takes a view that is very different.
