Psychology 1000 Lecture 10: Lecture 10B (2019)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-DeHoog

Document Summary

Chapter 10 - theories of intelligence assessing intelligence. Topics covered: reliability & validity of assessment, gifted individuals, savant syndrome, the nature of intelligence, factors impacting intelligence nature/nurture. Review from last class top-down processing: when language is interpreted in terms of knowledge and expectations it is referred to as: phoneme: the smallest sound unit in language, morpheme: the smallest unit of meaning in a language. A set of abilities that allows us to: acquire knowledge, think rationally, act purposefully, deal effectively with the environment. Note: intelligence can be thought of as a capacity rather than a thing, and as having a single or multiple capacities. Theories of intelligence: there are different ideas as to whether intelligence a single capacity or multiple capacities, spearman: a single unitary factor (g) observed that school grades in different subjects were positively correlated. So, attributed to general intelligence (g: problems with a single unitary factor. Savant belowa verageinte intelligence,but excel in one particular area.