PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Unit, Mental Age
Document Summary
The social, cultural, and political aspects of intelligence. Communicating with others: the development and use of language. Intelligence is positively related to: academic and military performance, job success, longevity, leadership ability. Intelligence is negatively related to: criminal behavior. Charles spearman"s two- factor theory of intelligence. He believed that one general intelligence (g) influenced other specific intelligences (s) Fluid intelligence: the capacity to learn new ways of solving problems and performing activities, tends to decrease with age. Crystallized intelligence: the accumulated knowledge of the world we acquire through our lives, may increase with age. Have been giving to many people of different ages. Intelligence tests should be standardized regularly, because the level of intelligence in a population may change over time. Flynn effect: scores on intelligence tests worldwide have increased substantially over the past few decades. Iq = (mental age/ chronological age) x 100: mental age the age at which an individual is preforming intellectually in children.
