Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stereotype Threat, Blind Experiment, Intelligence Quotient

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Eriko Matsuki

Document Summary

Alonzo clemons: brain injury as child, produces incredibly accurate clay sculptures of animals. Iq score of 40 (<70 is indication of disability) Iq of 52: gifted artist and near-perfect visual memory, draw aerial view of city after 30 min helicopter ride. Kim peek: extraordinary memory and could read pages and retain all of what he read, could do calendar calculations to remember day of the week. Autistic savants: mental disability but shows some remarkable talent, one important benefit of intelligence may be flexibility to perform wide range of mental tasks and. Fewer than 100 autistic savants at this level. Separation between being intelligent and having specialized talent not be limited to one talent. Of course, people differ: personalities, values, cognition, difference in ability to solve problems. Focus on deep structure rather than surface structure: mapping process: people can use analogies only if they can figure out how to map the prior case onto the problem now being solved.