PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Abstraction, Asian Americans
12 Mar 2018
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Fluid intelligence: ability to solve problems, reason and remember, uninfluenced by experience and schooling sort of like street smarts and using known abilities to solve problems. Multiple intelligences: still controversial, are they really independent of each other (e. g. , gardner, sternberg?) Reaction time: how long it takes someone to respond to a stimulus the shorter time it takes to react to something has a correlation to reaction time of the stimulus and intelligence. Intelligence correlates negatively (-. 3 to -. 4) with reaction time tasks7: prefrontal cortex activated during reasoning tasks. Involved in planning, impulse control, short-term memory, working memory: the pfc is what is ability to control your emotions and performing tasks. Iq: invented by wilhelm stern (1912: calculated by administering a task that measures at what mental age you are performing, mental age divided by chronological age times 100, being able to match your mental and chronological age.
