PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Representativeness Heuristic, Object Permanence, Skimmed Milk
23 Apr 2016
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One may say their friend steve is intelligent" but say your friend travis is not as intelligent. One can also consider different types of intelligence such as book smarts, street smarts and social smarts. According to psychologists, an important step in the journey begins with operationally de ning the problem. Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with the demands of daily living. The researcher edwin boring has provided the most straightforward de nition of intelligence. He says that intelligence is whatever intelligence tests measure. This de nition fails to capture important cognitive features of intelligence. In broadening our de nition, psychologists often make two assumptions: intelligence involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks, the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Sternberg has combined these two viewpoints into the following operational de nition that we will consider:
