PSYCH 1X03 Lecture 6: How do you define intelligence
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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 capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Intelligence involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks. Interpreting a social situation to finding a solution to a difficult math problem. Occurs when a person works from ideas. Moving from specific facts and observations and general information to arrive at specific to broader generalizations and theories. conclusions. Which of the following are true: the arch of knowledge involves creating theories and adapting those theories through experimentation. Inductive reasoning involved coming to a conclusion based on a given idea: we do not use deductive reasoning in the scientific method, deductive reasoning involves coming to a conclusion based on a given idea. I(cid:374)sight proble(cid:373)s are best sol(cid:448)ed (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou thi(cid:374)k (cid:862)outside the bo(cid:454)(cid:863) Functional fixedness: our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects.
