PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: The Bell Curve, Psy, Heritability
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Intelligence is also in uenced by the efforts put forth into learning. Crystal intelligence, learn about the facts around you, stays generally the same throughout lifespan. Language: language: a system for combining symbols (such as words) so that an unlimited number of meaningful statements can be made for the purpose of communicating with others. Piaget: children are not little adults, but instead, think quite differently about the word. Stressed importance of child"s social interactions for cognitive development. Zone of proximal development (zpd) which develops over time as children interact more throughout their life span. Scienti c study of changes in people from connection until. This type of study follows the same people over a period of time. Having a groups of people in for the study at once to compare and contrast change, involving multiple age groups. You combine the methods of a longitudinal study and a cross-sectional allowing you to follow up with multiple age groups over time.