PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Selective Breeding, Stereotype Threat, Longitudinal Study
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Intelligence: multifaceted concept; 2012: involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test taking smarts. Rather it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings, for catching on, making sense of things, or figuring out what to do. (recall: piaget believes intelligence is ability to adapt to environment) When we measure intelligence, we do not want to measure whether someone has been educated, but rather what they would do with an education. Binet test: 1905, first intelligence test prior to this intelligence was measured by head/brain size. Alfred binet: parisian educational psychologist, wanted to identify children who would need help academically in school: needed test to assess how well a child would be able to learn at school. Wanted interventions for kids who fell behind at school.
