PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Divergent Thinking, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Flynn Effect
9 Mar 2016
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Intelligence as sensory capacity (how good are your basic senses [hearing, smelling, etc. : galton came up with ^ intelligence as sensory capacity. Intelligence as abstract thinking: binet & simon who were research were tasked with to look at people"s intelligence and made up a test, intelligence test, higher mental processes. General intelligence (g) accounts for overall diferences in intellect among people. Our paricular skills are relected in our speciic abiliies (s) Catell and horn theorized that intelligence is a mix of two capaciies. Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems, or luid intelligence (new knowledge) Accumulated knowledge of the world we gain over ime, or crystallized intelligence (already known knowledge) Several theorists argue that there are enirely diferent domains of intellectual skill. Gardner"s frames of mind ways of thinking about the world. Argued that auisic savants provided support for these diferent types of intelligence.
