PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intelligence Quotient, General Idea, Egocentrism
23 Dec 2019
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Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn well from experience, reason well, remeber important information and cope with the demands of living. Problem solving: deductive: from general to detail inductive: from speci c detail to general idea. Functional fixedness: our dif culty seeing alternative uses for common objects history. Quality of a test: reliability: producing consistent results, validity: meaure what it intends to meature. Francis galton: aim to quantify intelligence by testing how quick a subject respond to sensory meter (lack of validity) Charles spearman: believed in a single type of intelligence called "g, advocate allowing only highly intelligent people vote. Howard gardener: believed in multiple intelligence, each type of intelligence is independent from each other human intelligence. Weschler scales: standardized to produce an intelligence quotient for each individual. The flynn effect: mean score for intelligence testing in population has been steadily increasing, nutrition, technology, education, Fluid intelligence refers to the ability to reason and think.
