Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Egocentrism, Mary Ainsworth, Savant Syndrome

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Hovald & sears (1940: displaced aggression. Properties of language (what makes a language a language?) Structure of thought (what is a thought, how do you string it, problem solving) Psychometric tradition (how do we measure intelligence; stanford-binet, Unitary vs multiplex intelligence (spearman and g, thurstone and 7 factors) What is deviation iq? (wais has 100 and standard deviation is 15) Reliability, validity and bias (needed for tests) Savant syndrome (what is it, what is associated with, it comes from lateralization, you could get it through accident) Theories of emotion (common sense, james-lange, two factor, etc. prediction) Stage vs continuous theories (stage qualitative differences, what you do at stage one you cant do at stage two, continuous everything is the same, you just do things a bit better; longitudinal, cross-sectional) Abilities of the newborn (what can infant do and what can they not do and when) Piaget (stage theory, stages of cognitive development, what are the milestones)