PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Rote Learning, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Mental Model

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 251
• Professor: Elizabeth Anne Kelley

Document Summary

Intelligence as numerous cognitive processes: a third view envisions intelligence as comprising numerous, distinct processes. Information-processing analyses of how people solve intelligence test items and how they perform everyday intellectual tasks such as reading, writing, and arithmetic reveal many processes involved: remembering, perceiving, attending, comprehending, encoding, associating, generalizing, planning, reasoning, solving problems etc. A proposed revolution: three-stratum theory of intelligence- ca(cid:396)(cid:396)oll"s (cid:373)odel that pla(cid:272)es g at the top of the intelligence hierarchy, eight moderately general abilities in the middle, and many specific processes at the bottom. The intelligence quotient (iq: tests such as the wisc and stanford-binet provide an overall quantitative measure of a (cid:272)hild"s intelligence relative to children of the same age. Iq scores are a strong predictor of academic, economic and occupational success: correlate strongly and positively with school grades. Other predictors of success: a (cid:272)hild"s (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396)isti(cid:272)s, su(cid:272)h as (cid:373)oti(cid:448)atio(cid:374) to su(cid:272)(cid:272)eed, (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tious(cid:374)ess, i(cid:374)telle(cid:272)tual curiosity, creativity, physical and mental health, social skills are important influences on.