PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Parietal Lobe, Intellectual Disability, Robert Sternberg
28 Mar 2017
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People wanted to learn about others intelligent level so they could put them in certain jobs. Galton believed that the stronger our senses, the smarter we are. Helen keller was intelligent and she did not have sight. Intelligence as abstract thinking: binet & simon, intelligence test, higher mental processes. Positive correlations among all items on iq tests led to spearman"s development of g and s. General intelligence (g) accounts for overall differences in intellect among people. Our particular skills are reflected in our specific abilities. Cattell and horn theorized that intelligence is a mix of two capacities. Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems, or fluid intelligence. Accumulated knowledge of the world we gain over time, or crystallized intelligence. Several theorists argue that there are entirely different domains of intellectual skill. Gardner"s frames of mind ways of thinking about the world. Argued that autistic savants provided support for these different types of intelligence.
