PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Twin, David Wechsler
2 Apr 2013
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Definition of intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information and cope with demands of daily living. Deductive reasoning: you come to a concrete conclusion based on a general idea, ex. If someone tells you it is going to rain, you determine that the ground will be wet. Inductive reasoning: you generate a general idea given some concrete information, ex. You notice the ground is wet and you determined that it was raining. In science, we start with a general theory about the world and then use deductive reasoning to generate a specific, testable hypothesis about the data we expect to obtain. Then through experimentation, we collect data and use inductive reasoning to relate it to our general theory in some way. Two important qualities of a test: reliability. Measures the extent to which repeated testing produces consistent results.
