PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient, Transhumanism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AA3
• Professor: Jennifer Ostovich

Document Summary

Plato said the gods made us the way we are and that we cant be changed so he said its 100% heritable and cannot be changed. He said, the species will generally be preserved in the children : aka once u get these ppl stuck in silver, gold, etc. they"re stuck. Intelligence refers to the ability to reason abstractly, to learn form experience, and to adapt to your environment: this definition summarizes the definition on the slide . Fuller definition on slide generally, this definition is universally agreed upon: says its not merely book learning (note: but book learning is still part of it) How intelligence is measured: historically and currently. Distribution of intelligence scores: what the scores of standard deviation (sd) mean. And we compare the avg score of those set of qs of ppl our age to the score that we get. We still use iq tests to see what kids need help.