PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Frontal Lobe, Social Intelligence, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Research studies: whatever intelligence tests measure (school smarts) Not like weight/height - intelligence assigned to qualiies that enable success in own ime/culture. Intelligence = mental quality consising of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situaions. Intelligence test = method for assessing people"s mental abiliies and compares them with others, using numerical score. Several disinct abiliies tend to cluster together and correlate enough to deine a general intelligence factor. Gardner sees intelligences as mult abiliies that come in dif packages. Brain damage might destroy one but leave others in tact: savant syndrome = condiion in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an excepionally speciic skill, such as in computaion or drawing. Score low on tests but have island of brilliance: 4/5 are male + many have auism. Uses this evidence to argue that we have mult intelligences.