PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Conjunction Fallacy, Daniel Kahneman, Factor Analysis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: n/a

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Common sense understanding of what it means (cid:862)you k(cid:374)o(cid:449) it (cid:449)he(cid:374) you see/hea(cid:396) it(cid:863) Hearing someone read sentences or speak for 20 secs. Te(cid:374)d to thi(cid:374)k (cid:449)ell (cid:862)o(cid:374) the spot(cid:863) to o(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:272)o(cid:373)e o(cid:271)sta(cid:272)les. It is possible to be both book smart and street smart. Some ppl naturally pick stuff up and learn easily. Underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks (verbal, quantitative, etc) Linked to many clusters that can be analyzed via factor analysis. Defi(cid:374)e the (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ship (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) these t(cid:449)o (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds; (cid:862)apple(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)o(cid:396)a(cid:374)ge(cid:863) Defi(cid:374)e the (cid:449)o(cid:396)d (cid:862)a(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ulate(cid:863) speaking clearly and concisely (scores from 0-2) O(cid:396)igi(cid:374)ally (cid:272)o(cid:373)puted (cid:271)y (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:396)i(cid:374)g a (cid:272)hild"s s(cid:272)o(cid:396)e agai(cid:374)st the scores of other children from a similar population but of diff ages. 2 (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) is the sta(cid:374)da(cid:396)d iq fo(cid:396) the (cid:862)a(cid:448)e(cid:396)age(cid:863) (cid:272)hild a(cid:374)d adult. Although the la(cid:271)el of (cid:862)iq(cid:863) is still used today, it te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:272)ally (cid:374)o longer exists. Makes sense in children, but not in adults!