PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Twin Study, Mental Rotation, Flynn Effect
24 Aug 2016
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Definitional confusion: intelligence as sensory capacity. Intelligence as abstract thinking: binet and 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 form overall differences in intellect among people. Our particular skills are reflected in our specific abilities (s) 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 off 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 mine ways of thinking about the world. Argues that autistic savants provided support for these different types of intelligence. Mixed scientific reactions to this model because it"s: virtually impossible to falsify, not clear why certain abilities classify as intelligences, while others don"t, no good evidence that these intelligences are truly independent.
