PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stephen Hawking, Garry Kasparov, Chiropractic

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Week 13 cognitive psychology basics of. Creative intelligence using imagination to solve problems. Emotional intelligence how one handles emotional responses. Hard to verbalize, but when interacting with an intelligent person, we can know that they are intelligent. Clarity: aspects of speech are not enough to capture what we mean by intelligence. Street smarts roughly practical intelligence vs. book smarts roughly general intelligence. Ability to: overcome obstacles, solve problems, make decision via rational considerations, come up w efficient solutions to the problems of everyday life. Don"t need any education to have practical intelligence g ) How someone processes complex info to perform tasks. Not just books: how fast perceptual speed is, how you can interpret patterns, how strong your memory is. Thought to be measured by iq tests: ie. wais. Used to only be developed for children: several decades afterwards were they developed for adults.