psy290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Object Permanence, Jean Piaget, Cognitive Development
18 Sep 2017
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Intelligence: the cognitive ability to an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with the demands of daily living: involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks, requires learning and adaptation. Deductive reasoning: come to a conclusion based on a general idea. Ex its (cid:396)ai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g outside ----- im going to get wet! E(cid:454) . ha(cid:396)d (cid:449)o(cid:396)k = su(cid:272)(cid:272)ess------- study hard and i will do well in the course! Inductive reasoning: generate an idea, based on concrete information. Exthe ground is wet!------ it must have rained! Exi did poorly on the midterm!------- it must have been too hard! Insight problems: are a special type of puzzles that engage our problem solving skills. (allows you to think outside the box) Functional fixedness: our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. Difficulty seeing alternate uses for the items with which we are familiar Reliability: a reliable test produces the same result if one person takes it multiple times.
