PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Working Memory, Flynn Effect, Divergent Thinking
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The ability to use knowledge to: reason, make decisions, solve problems, understand complex ideas, learn, adapt to environmental challenges. Entity: intelligence is an innate ability, present at birth. Incremental view: intelligence is judgement and adapting to one"s circumstances. Those of lesser intellectual capacity should not reproduce. Facilities across the country took people of lower intellectual capacity and sterilized them so they could not reproduce. Still happens today, 200 women in california prison forcibly sterilized. Use emotions to guide thoughts and actions a. iii. Understand emotional language: sternberg"s triarchic theory, analytical a. i. Ability to deal with novel situations: practical c. i. Ability to apply knowledge to the real world c. ii. Ability to shape one"s environment: gardner"s theory of multiple intelligence, linguistic (word smart, logical-mathematical (number/reasoning smart, spatial (picture smart, bodily-kinesthetic (body smart, musical (music smart) Savants- people who experience extraordinary skill in one area but poor in others. David wechsler: wechsler adult intelligence, wechsler intelligence scale for children, looks at: