PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sampling Bias, Tiger Woods, Panic Zone
14 Mar 2018
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People believe that talent people are born like that. People believe that inborn talent makes world class athletes special. Being a short basketball player would put you at disadvantage. Athletes is a good example for people who are so well-practiced that their performance is highly automatic. Popularized the idea that intelligence and skills are inherited. Studies showing that there is an inborn component to high-level performance. Biased sample: very accomplished population sample (eg judges, politicians, scientists) Main theory: maybe high-level performances are due to practicing at a young age. Key to success in any endeavour: start at young age (before 10 y/o) and practice incessantly. One of the greatest classical music composers. Been playing piano at 3 y/o, composing music at 6 y/o, acknowledged works at 21 y/o. Mozart"s father wrote a book about how to teach children music. Mozart had the highest quality of teaching available. By the age of 6, mozart had around 3000-4000 hours of practices.
