PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Flynn Effect, Egocentrism, Object Permanence
3 Feb 2014
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Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with the demands of daily living. Intelligence involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks and the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Problems that require you to think outside the box. Functioning fixedness: our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. Subtopic: the qualities of a test: reliability: a reliable test produces the same result if one person takes it multiple times. Repeated test produces consistent results: validity: a valid test measure only the trait is supposed to be measuring. Subtopic: francis galton: recorded how quickly subjects could respond to sensory motor tasks by reaction time; faster time, more intelligent. Subtopic: multiple intelligences: howard gardner proposed a multiple intelligence test, 8 different intelligences: verbal (linguistic), mathematical (logical), rhythmic (musical), spatial (visual), kinesthetic (bodily), interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic, each intelligence is independent of others.
