PSYC 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Experimental Psychology, Memory Span, Longitudinal Study
19 Apr 2016
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Operational definition - defines a concept in terms of the way it"s measured. This messes with concurrent validity; if established tests are a criterion against which new tests are assessed, new tests are viewed as valid to the extent they correlate with the old tests; curtails innovation. In contrast,a real definition is one that seeks to tell us the true nature of the thing being defined: common way to accomplish this - ask experts in the field to define it. Excludes cross-cultural conceptions of intelligence - eastern conceptions emphasize benevolence, humility, freedom from judgment, and doing what is right: african conceptions include emphasis on social aspects of intelligence - maintaining group harmony. Regardless, experts tend to agree that intelligence is: the capacity to learn from experience, the capacity to adapt to one"s environment. Very few contemporary intelligence tests appear to require the examinee to learn something new/adapt to a situation.
