PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Long-Term Memory, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
1 Jun 2020
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Intellectual can be measured: multiple intelligence more difficult. Intelligence as more than a single general trait. Simplest view (catell: fluid intelligence, ability to think on the spot, drawing on inferences and understanding the relations between concepts that haven"t been encountered previously, crystalized intelligence, factual knowledge about the world, long term memory from prior experiences. Allowing more precise specification of the mechanisms involved in intelligent behavior: how we perform intellectual tasks, remembering, perceiving, attending, comprehending, encoding, associating, generalizing, planning, reasoning, forming concepts, solving problems, generating and applying strategies. Fluid intelligence: deliberate but flexible control of attention to solve problems (on the spot, rely on logic, pattern recognition, abstract thinking to solve new problems, sequential reasoning, 2 abstract premises make a conclusion based on hypothetical reasoning. Induction (quantitative reasoning: draw inferences based on underlying commonality of phenomenon. Crystalized intelligence: accumulation of knowledge facts and skills acquired throughout life, knowledge acquired from school, depends on cultural context, knowledge of printed language, vocabulary.
