PSYC 2583 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cancer, Robert Sternberg, Congenital Disorder
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Females tend to be less active than males. Can lead to diabetes, increase in death from heart disease. Causes of death around mid to late childhood. Congenital abnormalities often begin before prenatal development. Operations a mental action that is reversible. Transivity the ability to understand logical conclusions. Promoting critical thinking: critical thinking involves actively reflecting and evaluating evidence, examples of critical thinking: Creative projects: examples of surface learning: Copying down terms from a textbook: often we don"t promote critical thinking in the classroom because it can take a lot of time and it is unstructured. The lower case g means general intelligence: multiple intelligence theories. Analytical intelligence ability to analyze, judge, evaluate, compare, and contrast: tend to do well on standardized tests, do well in school. Creative intelligence ability to create, design, invent, and imagine: probably not the best student, give answers that are unique and not necessarily correct.
