PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Representativeness Heuristic, Confirmation Bias, Conjunction Fallacy

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Explain what intelligence is and how it is measured. Assess the reliability and validity of iq measures. Identify some of the controversies surrounding intelligence testing. Describe the three neural correlates of intelligence. What is the relative contribution of genes and environment. How do genetic effects change over the lifespan. Discriminate between shared and unshared environmental effects. Explain what mental shortcuts are, using examples. Describe the types of errors that occur as a result of relying on these mental shortcuts. Focusing on understanding and quantifying how individuals differ (ie. traits such as intelligence, personality, self-esteem) Rather than looking for universal laws underlying behaviour &mental process. That they often had brilliant relatives suggesting intelligence was hereditary, interested in biological differences that led to differences in intelligence. Believed intelligence is based on biology, measures of intelligences. Statistical analysis that examines all correlations b/w all of the items and determines if any of them are highly correlated w/ each other.