PSYCH 1X03 Lecture 4: PROBLEM SOLVING AND INTELLIGENCE
11 Jan 2019
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Intelligence cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important, information, and cope with the demands of daily living. Problem solving: problem solving ability is a relative indicator of intelligence, deductive reasoning ideas/general information specific conclusions. Inductive reasoning specific facts broad generalizations. Insight problem designed to test your ability to think outside the box: functional fixedness our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. Binet"s intelligence scale: had 30 simple tasks that could adapt to each age group, later called the standford-binet intelligence test. Spearman & generalized intelligence: called it g ; intelligence is reflected in overall performance. Gardner"s types of intelligence: 8 different types of intelligence, independent from one another, lack of evidence; ignores spearman"s findings on g . Increased reaction time = higher intelligence; reaction to sensorimotor tasks. Weschler scales of intelligence: originally modelled on binet"s scale, but has been changed since. Iq scores: standardized relative to the population scores.
