Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: National Association Of Scholars, Verbal (Rapper), Deep Structure And Surface Structure

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Smoking volcanoes can be bad for your health. Deep structure different meanings or interpretations of the sentence. A host of abilities: memory, creativity, problem solving, concrete knowledge of things, etc. Several studies indicate that unschooled people in remote villages cannot solve syllogisms: a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed propositions. Suggests that preliterate people do not use logical analysis. Scribner (1977: all kpelle men are rice farmers; mr. smith is not a rice farmer. Mental quickness: develops correlation coefficient, results disappointing. Binet: request from french government (public school was mandatory) Government wanted him to develop ways of understanding how to sort people. Intelligence was not unitary; rather a collection of higher-order abilities - multiplex properly. No correlation: ability results from learning not genes. Sharp contrast to galton: binet and simon develop test in early 1900s tapping a number of abilities (memory, math, etc. , correlate scores with teacher ratings.