PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Informal Logic, Spelling Bee, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Standardized - people who had more time will do better than the people who have less time for the test. Intelligence - ability to profit from experience, acquire knowledge, think abstractly, act purposefully, or adapt to changes in the environment. Reification - an instance where you identify something and give it a name, act as though it is a real entity, as if you discovered it; ex. Intelligence collect behaviors together and call it intelligence. Applied aspects of iq - used iq to determine if they were mentally capable and if you had low iq you were sterilized (olden days) What was the difference in beliefs/findings between thurstone and. Fluid intelligence ability to address new problems + create new solutions/ideas, early life and then draws off. All the info needed to solve the problem. Don"t have all of the info and not everyone agrees.