PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Flynn Effect, Edwin Boring, Inductive Reasoning
10 Feb 2016
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1: capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Deductive and inductive reasoning: deductive reasoning: occurs when a person works from ideas and general information to arrive at speci c conclusion, idea to conclusion, i. e. * scientists, use deductive reasoning to generate testable hypotheses and inductive reasoning to interpret and collect data. Insight problems: a special category of problems that are designed to test your ability to think outside of the box , functional fixedness: our dif culty seeing alternative uses for common objects. A reliable test that produces the same result if one person takes it multiple times: validity: Measures the extent to which a test is actually measuring what the researcher claims to be measuring. Francis galton: formally quanti es intelligence in an unbiased manner, recorded how quickly subjects could respond to sensory motor tasks by their reaction time, increased reaction time= higher intelligence. Stanford- binet intelligence test: produced the rst intelligence scale.
