PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dementia, Block Design, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
31 Jan 2019
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Psych 105: individual and social behaviour- lecture 11. Conducted can experiment on japanese and north americans. When showed a picture of fish swimming in a scenery, they were asked to describe what they see. Japanese described the wholeness of the landscape and discussed the small things and their significance. North americans mostly focused on describing the dominant big fishes who were actively swimming. We learn from our own experiences and other experiences as we hear them. People who speak different languages might think differently. Intelligence: the variable capacity that underlies in reasoning, problem solving and acquiring new knowledge. Psychologists are interested in trying to capture and measure intelligence. Applied psychologists solve real life problems and many of them are intelligence testers. Schools want to take intelligence tests to identify children who might need more academic attention. Army assigns ranks and tasks according to intelligence scores.
