PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Bell Curve, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Intelligence Quotient
13 Mar 2017
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Individual differences: individual differences reflect differences in patterns of performance across individuals in a group, for instance in terms of ability or development. Intelligence: demonstrated individual differences in mental competence, one general mental ability, or are there more numerous and varied intellectual abilities, more intelligent people carry a cognitive process more efficiently. They acquire store and manipulate information better than peers. Multiple intelligence: linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, musical intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, spatial intelligence, naturalist, existential. Experts encode information, via eye movements, differently than beginners: a chess beginner, given the same board of the same exposure, could reconstruct the positions of only about 5 pieces, how, chunking of meaningful information increases memory span. Preserved functions: bodies change physically and so does mentality, how is memory affected with age, semantic memory. Increases with advancing age: implicit memory, relatively stable across adulthood. Episodic memory: greater decline in memory processes that rely on the frontal lobes, encoding deficit, retrieval deficit, sound memory deficit.
