PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Prefrontal Cortex, Health Literacy, Lewis Terman
25 Apr 2021
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Sensory capacity (galton) - information of the world comes through taste, smell, touch, see and hear. Researchers tried to prove that if you have a really good eye site you are really intelligent. Then i found that because someone has a really good eye they might not have a really good hearing. They found out that since someone is really good at writing, they are also really good at math. Fluid and crystallized ( cattell & horn) Learn to adapt to novel environmental circumstances. Strength of our mental engines s or specific intelligence. Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems. The accumulated knowledge of the world we acquire over time. Related to personality trait openness to experience. General knowledge, vocabulary, a product of educational and cultural experiences. Fluid - lets us learn new things around the world. Crystallized -things we know at the top of our head. Knowing how many seats are in the house of commons.
