PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - The Kallikak Family, Intelligence Quotient, Flynn Effect

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: David Klonsky

Document Summary

Capacity to adapt to a new situation. Ability to memorize, team, and critically think in order to successfully communicate & solve problems across different situations. Capacity to learn & apply knowledge to analyze and succeed in different situations. Mental ability to discover, acquire and retain knowledge and concepts, and to apply them flexibly and effectively to various contexts. Research process: good definition, good measurement, test it. Use our knowledge to adapt to new situations. In research studies intelligence is whatever the intelligence test measures. Error of reification- error of taking a concept and treating it as concrete, universal, same everywhere. Coined technical terms of lower half of intelligence: moron, imbecile, idiot. His views on intelligence evolved greatly over his own life. Was particularly interested in measuring intelligence in immigrants into us. Believed the intelligence had genetic component, & immigrants would bring in non-intelligent genes into the population creating morons, imbeciles, & idiots.