PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Smart People, Prime Factor, Twin Study
29 Nov 2016
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* acting and thinking in ways that are adaptive. * explains our ability to solve problems and direct our own thinking, speaks to the idea that intelligence as being goal- directed, learn new things/from experience and adapt to varying situations. * psychologists can"t agree on a precise definition of intelligence. * boring"s definition: intelligence is whatever intelligence tests measure . * sidesteps the issue doesn"t tell us why some are smarter than others or whether some people are truly smarter than others in general, or in specific ways. * focused on measuring (testing) intelligence (the what, statistics) * historians have found evidence that in china, civil service" exams were used 4000 years ago to determine the skills of community members (law, geography, etc) * persons with higher intelligence show quicker reaction times and less overall brain activity which leads to more efficient processing of information.
