PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Test Anxiety, Standardized Test, Social Intelligence
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Iq measures your abstract thinking (structuralism: your ability to think abstractly, g measures the brain"s ability to do work, intelligence measures abstract powers. Iq reflects your ability to adapt/adjust (darwinism & Charles spearman: argues that you have two kinds of intellectual power: g and s. G general intellectual factor common to a lot of different intellectual tasks that correlate highly (i. e. reading) General capacity of the human brain to do intellectual tasks. Cattell: argues that there are two fundamentally different forms of intelligence: Can acquire new knowledge, can resolve novel circumstances, learn languages quickly. Allows you to acquire new knowledge and solve new problems. Begins to decline at the age of 35. Increases while the brain is growing, and when the number of neurons decreases, fluid intelligence declines. Takes over at the age of 35. Older people can apply what they know, but cannot acquire new information and solve new problems. Increasingly steadily gets better until very old age.
