PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Eugenics, Behavioural Genetics

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Psyc 100 - introduction to psychology - lecture 1: cognitive psychology iii. Intelligence: the ability to think, understand, reason and adapt to or overcome obstacles. What and how is controversial about intelligence: bias: white mid forties male from north america, measure. Fluid intelligence: relates to problem solving skills, it"s about being flexible quick witted and fluid in a sense, decreases with age. Crystalized intelligence: relates to knowledge acquisition, facts thoughts ideas, trivia material, increases with age due to the amount of information a person is exposed to. People who did well on verbal tests also did well on numerical tests. Those who didn"t then they didn"t do well on most tests. Some people are simply more intelligence than others: better at problem solving, test taking. Strengths can be less general, verbal, numerical etc. Eugenics (limit reproduction of those with lesser genes) Popular in field of education-little good research. Theory based on adults with neurological insults.