PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Object Permanence, Flynn Effect, Lewis Terman
31 Jan 2017
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The cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with the demands of daily living. Deductive reasoning occurs when a person works from ideas and general information to arrive at speci c conclusions. Inductive reasoning works the opposite way, moving from speci c facts and observations to broader generalizations and theories. The reliability of a test measures the extent to which repeated testing produces consistent results. Reliability is important for psychologist measuring any effect; it is especially important for an intelligence test, because psychologists assume that intelligence is a static, internal quality. Validity measures the extent to which a test is actually measuring what the researcher claims to be measuring. The modern study of intelligence is often credited to francis galton, the lesser known cousin of charles darwin. Galton"s goal was to formally quantify intelligence in an unbiased manner.
