PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intelligence Quotient, Robert Sternberg, Amusia
Document Summary
Diagnostic tool designed to measure overall thinking ability. Capacity to understand hypothetical concepts g (general intelligence) Hypothetical factor that counts for overall differences in intellect among people s (specific abilities) Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems. Accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time. Idea that people vary in their ability levels across different domains of intellectual skill. Model of intelligence proposed by robert sternberg positing three distinct types of intelligence: analytical, practical, and creative. Systematic means of quantifying differences among people in their intelligence. Age corresponding to the average individual"s performance on an intelligence test. Expression of a person"s iq relative to his or her same-aged peers. Movement in the early 20th century to improve a population"s genetic stock by encouraging those with good genes to reproduce, preventing those with bad genes from reproducing. Most widely used intelligence test for adults today, consisting of 15 subsets to assess different types of mental abilities.
