POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Robert Sternberg, Savant Syndrome, Triumvirate

• School: Emory University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Reinhardt Eric

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The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. Charles spearman performed a factor analysis of different skills and found that people who did well in one are also did well in another. He speculated that these people had a high (cid:862)g(cid:863) (cid:894)general intelligence(cid:895). Made up on reasoning ability, general knowledge, spatial abilities, access to memory, and processing. Ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g isolated (cid:862)isla(cid:374)ds(cid:863) of high a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) a(cid:373)idst a sea of (cid:271)elow-average cognitive and social functioning. Noted that different people have intelligence/abilities in different areas. Theo(cid:396)ized that le(cid:448)els of these (cid:862)i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:863) (cid:272)ould (cid:448)a(cid:396)(cid:455) i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)tl(cid:455) of ea(cid:272)h other. The different intelligence factors tend to correlate with each other, and with a general level of intelligence. (cid:862) u(cid:272)(cid:272)ess(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:396)(cid:396)elates (cid:449)ith o(cid:448)e(cid:396)all i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Success also correlates with hard work, connections, and the development of e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)tise (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:1005)(cid:1004) (cid:455)ea(cid:396) (cid:396)ule(cid:863)(cid:895). Social intelligence = the ability to understand and navigate social situations.