PSYC 1100 Lecture 16: Thinking and Intelligence II

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Alexandra Paxton

Document Summary

Psyc 1100 lecture 16 thinking and intelligence ii. The neuron study suggests there are only three types of intelligence: reasoning, short-term memory, and verbal. However, it is important to differentiate between types of skills and intelligence. It is also important to consider what is a skill and what is actually a form of intelligence. There are two ways of problem solving. Creativity: finding new solutions, uses, possibilities, etc. Functional fixedness: inability to find multiple uses for something other than what you have learned to use it for. Ex: ariel in the little mermaid having no understanding that a fork is used to eat with, because she learned to use forks as combs for hair. When finding the solution to a problem, it is essential to overcome functional fixedness. Studies show that creative problem-solving is more successful when people actually try our their ideas ( hand on solving) rather than just thinking of the solution mentally.