PSYC37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: David Wechsler, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, American Psychologist
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The art of being wise is the of knowing what to overlook. (william james) And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. (socrates) Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. (f. scott fitzgerald) The ability to judge well, to understand well, to reason well. (binet and simon) The power of goof responses from the point of view of truth or fact. (thorndike) A generic term to indicate the superior forms of organization or equilibrium of cognitive structuring used for adaptation to the physical and social environment. (piaget) The aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with the environment. (wechsler: recurring themes: Capacity to adapt: culturally biased definitions, our definition(s) of intelligence have direct implications for how we go about measuring it, any measure of intelligence is guided by an underlying definition and theory of intelligence.
