PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Satoshi Kanazawa, Motivation, Parietal Lobe

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Martha Savage

Document Summary

Lecture 8 -intelligence, ability and talent (pg 404-411) module 35-1 table 10. 2. When we refer someone"s iq as if it were fixed and objectively real trait like height, we. Though people have different abilitiesintelligence is a concept and not a thing commit a reasoning error called reification --> viewing an abstract immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing. Cultures deem intelligent whatever attributes enable success in those cultures. Believe we have one general intelligence (g) Helped develop factor analysis --> statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items. Certain abilities may tend to "cluster" together that may define a general intelligence factor. Argues general intelligence evolved as a form of intelligence that helps people solve novel problems. Believes general intelligence correlates with solving novel problems but not so much evolutionarily familiar problems such as marrying, parenting, forming friendships, navigating without maps. Views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in packages.