Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Verbal Fluency Test, Kinesics, Proxemics

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

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Agenda: paralanguage, facial expressions, body movement, eye contact. Males have better hand eye coordination than females. Causes of autism: brain damage likely, courchesne (1991) Its good, and start young is even better, earlier the better: effectiveness depends on iq loss. Given an individual several tests, there"s going to be a strong correlation factor between all the tests g . Given an individual several tests there is no correlation between the tests, but there might be some off correlations between them, but not very strong. Thurstone: 7 primary abilities: verbal comprehension, verbal fluency, computation, spatial visualization, associative memory, perceptual speed, reasoning. How many primary abilities are there: depends on number of tests and number of factors extracted. Other multiple models: cattel -> fluid vs. crystallized. Fluid is raw computation (decline as one grows older), crystalized is knowledge (wisdom, grow over time: gardner -> multiple intelligences, sternberg -> triarchic theory.