PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Inequality, Job Performance, Twin Study
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Can be seen as whatever we can measure. Who makes the criteria and how it is bias to certain degrees. Childhood, status, expectations of a certain job. Picked out at a young age, so you will never experience a normal life. Intelligence is whatever intelligence tests measure (edward boring, Normally intelligence is related to grades yet many other things are set aside from the true meaning of intelligence, no actual definition or meaning. Once you are labeled by these grades and iq they are what really based education on if you are to get into school. Ultimately creating robots which are a bunch of people that are obsessed with grades and higher with less passion and passion towards a career or future. Intelligence is the byproduct of sensory capacity. (galton) All knowledge begins with our senses; thus people with exceptional sensory abilities acquire more knowledge. (acquire knowledge through sensory) Galton ran thousands of tests of sensory abilities!