PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Creative Problem-Solving, Functional Fixedness
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Involves a conceptual reorganization to generate something new. Insights are usually unexpected: incubation, creative solutions suddenly pop into the mind after problem solver has given up, different perspectives may have emerged, sets and biases dissolve. Spearman: general intelligence- g factor, specific abilities- s factors. Thurstone: 7 primary mental abilities, verbal comprehension, numerical ability, spatial relations, perceptual speed, word fluency, memory, reasoning, hierarchal, primary abilities can be subsumed under g. Guilfurd: structure of intellect, multiple abilities 150, no need for g, operations, content, products. Cattell: g= fluid + crystalized intelligence, crystalized- ability to apply acquired knowledge/skills when problem solving fluid- reasoning memory, speed of info processing. Gardner framed of mind/different ways of thinking about world: 8 multiple intelligence. Sternberg"s triarchic theory of intelligence intelligence= 3 interacting components: internal- analytical (most related to traditional iq tests, external- creative, experimental- practical (helps us adapt to our environment)
