HDE 100C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Procedural Memory, Pragmatics, Life Review
1 Nov 2016
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Lecture 9 & 10: chapter 4: cognitive abilities. Cognitive abilities: cognition and intelligence, cognition higher level thinking. Ex: ability to gain and retain information; ability for problem solving; ability to focus attention. Intelligence observable indicator of efficiency of various cognitive processes that work together behind the scenes to process information in various ways. Psychometrics the field that studies measurement of human abilities such as intelligence g and iq gg reflects the central, general intellectual capacity. Iq (intelligence quotient) score on an intelligence test. The score on an intelligence test (i. e. , the iq score) is meant to describe (i. e. , general intellectual capacity) Example: components of intellectual capacity: changes in iq scores with age, cross-sectional data previously thought that iq declines a lot with age. Ex: ability to reason about real- life problems, technical skills learned for a job, counting change, vocabulary, reading and verbal comprehension. Fluid intelligence basic adaptive abilities measured by tests of digit span, response speed, and abstract reasoning.
