PSYCH 1N03 Lecture Notes - Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Operational Definition, Egocentrism
7 Jan 2014
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Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with the demands of daily living. Intelligence involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks and the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. The arch of knowledge involves creating theories and adapting those theories through experimentation. Problems that require you to think outside the box. Functioning fixedness: our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. Reliability: a reliable test produces the same result if one person takes it multiple times. Validity: a valid test measure only the trait is supposed to be measuring. Recorded how quickly subjects could respond to sensory motor tasks by reaction time; faster time, more intelligent. Produced test that included 30 short tasks related to everyday life (name parts of body, compare lengths and weights, name objects in a picture and define words); all of these tasks required reasoning.
