PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Francis Galton, Raymond Cattell, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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Intelligence: a concept that refers to individual differences in abilities to: Iq: (mental age/chronological age) x 100: major problem: if intelligence remains constant, then iq will drop as you age. Textbook: b. f. skinner: verbal behavior (1957): children learn language the same way they learn everything else. In english, we add ed to the end of a verb for past tense; kids add it. Thinked, goed, eated : adults do not say this, so this supports, learned rules of language, humans have an inborn or native propensity for language, nativist theory: humans are equipped with a language acquisition device. Innate mechanism or process that facilitates the learning of language: humans learn language due to biology; brain and neural wiring, children seem to acquire language quickly so it has to be built in; same time for most children. Intelligence is your potential to learn from experience: problem-solving, adapt.
