PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
28 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Involves ability to perform cognitive tasks and the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Intelligence = cognitive ability of individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with the demands of daily living. Special categories of problems designed to test ability to think outside the box. Functional fixedness = our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. Two important qualities of a test: reliability and validity. Validity = measures extent to which test is actually measuring what researcher claims to be measuring. His goal was to quantify intelligence in unbiased manner. Recorded how quickly subjects could respond to sensory motor tasks by the reaction time. Early 1900"s, alfred binet hired by french ministry of public instruction to develop tool that would help identify public school children who needed special education. 1905 he produced first intelligence scale which included 30 short tasks related to everyday life.
