Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Autism Spectrum, Purkinje Cell, Parietal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Smoking volcanoes can be bad for your health. *a sentence can only ever have one surface structure. Several studies indicate that unschooled people in remote villages cannot solve syllogisms (logical analysis) We tend to think logical analysis is intelligence. But this test suggests that preliterate people do (cid:374)ot or (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot use logi(cid:272)al a(cid:374)alysis . "all kpelle men are rice farmers, mr. smith is not a rice farmer. People would tell you to go ask him yourself, they don"t guess. Because answer above is still an intelligent answer. 1869 - relatives of intelligent people --> supports a genetic component of intelligence. Starts research program to identify those with low ability (argued that they can"t learn anyways so should be weeded out of the system) Believes that intelligence was unitary (mental quickness, reaction time) However the results were disappointing because the correlation was low. Request from french government to start coming up with measures of intelligence.