PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Object Permanence, Block Design, System Model

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Anna Majury

Document Summary

Intelligence as a cluster of traits creative, emotional, practical. Practical intelligence (street smarts), based on experience, self trial and error. People with street smarts are very good on the spot. General intelligence (book smarts), school type learning ie reading from books. People who are organized and prepared, not so good at coming up with solutions in the face of challenge in the moment. Successful performance on a wide variety of tasks. (defining words, quantitative math problems, special stuff, 2. perceptual reasoning scale- block design, visual puzzles. 3. working memory scale- digit span, arithmetic. 4. processing speed scale- symbol search, coding. Best test measure of g (general intelligence) is iq test. Iq is mental age determine by a test. Week 14: developmental psychology - physical and lifespan development. Human development begins in utero for about 9 months before birth. Germinal (0-2 weeks)- occurrences: cleavage, blastomere, morula, blastocyst conception takes place in the fallopian tobes.