PSY 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Metacognition, Tacit Knowledge, Intelligence Quotient
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Thinking and intelligence: the study of how we make decisions- for better or for worse. Insight: sudden awareness of the solution without knowing how you found it, the (cid:862)ah ha(cid:863) (cid:373)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Intuition: hunches and gut feelings, formal reasoning problems: problems that are solved using established methods (algorithms and logic) and usually have only one correct solution (ex: iq test. Informal reasoning problems: problems with no clearly correct solution, typically solved using heuristics or intuition. Infiltrated a group of people who thought the world would end on. Intelligence: the ability to profit from experience, acquire knowledge, think abstractly, or adapt to changes in the environment. Intelligence quotient (iq: scoring system to evaluate student performance on the test, originally calculated by dividing mental age by chronological age and multiplying by 100, now derived from norms for standardized tests. Iq scores are distributed (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)all(cid:455)(cid:863: bell-shaped curve, very high and low scores are rare, 68% of people are between 85-115, 99. 7% between 55-145.
