PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Behavioural Genetics, Knowledge Acquisition, Twin Study
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Metacomponents- knowledge about self (own limits and abilities) Performance- higher order skill (reading- monitoring what you"ve just read) Knowledge acquisition (i understand, or don"t, i am aware, i am not aware: experiential. Novelty- bring the prior knowledge (try and look for similarities for things i"ve seen before so you can quickly adapt) Psychometric approach: measure and assess intelligence, based on the bell curve, or normal distribution, most intelligence tests do not test social abilities/ adaption to environment, about iq tests. Standard deviation is usually set at 15: average usually 100 o, comparison group is the rest of the population, you want to have as diverse a population sample as possible. Standardized- establishing norms for comparing the scores of people who will take the test in the future: nature vs. nature: o. Intelligence tests sit at the seat of many political debates.
