PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hermione Granger, Street Smarts, Intelligence Quotient
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Week 13: psych lecture basics of intelligence & heuristics. Intelligence is a very difficult and controversial concept to define. Its creative, practical, general, emotional and analytic. It is a cluster of related traits (iq tests have a cluster of testing creative, memory, comprehension, reasoning, etc) This intelligence is based on experience (making mistakes, trial and error, self) People (cid:449)ho are street s(cid:373)art te(cid:374)d to thi(cid:374)k (cid:449)ell (cid:858)o(cid:374) the spot(cid:859) to o(cid:448)er(cid:272)o(cid:373)e obstacles. Based on school type learning (talking to profs, reading books, going to lectures) Tend to be organized and very prepared. They are(cid:374)(cid:859)t so great at thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g (cid:449)ell a(cid:374)d (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t de(cid:272)isio(cid:374)s i(cid:374) the moment. Hermione granger is an example of someone having general intelligence. Underlines successful performance on a wide variety of tasks (verbal, quantitative) Linked to many clusters that can be analyzed through something spearman (cid:272)alls (cid:858)fa(cid:272)tor a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sis(cid:859) Therefore, intelligence is a series of the related traits.