PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Problem Solving
3 May 2018
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●What is Intelligence?
○Ability to take accumulated knowledge and use it to adapt quickly to reason,
decision making, and solving complex problems
●Theories of Intelligence
○g
■Represented as one general underlying mental ability
■“g” for general
●Ex: logic
■Common ability to perform in multiple specific domains
■Seperated into “S1, S2, S3, S4”
●Ex: logic supported through writing, mathematics, sciences, etc.
●When one tends to do well in one domain, they tend to do well in
other connected domains
○g = Fluid vs. Crystallized
■Fluid
●Ability to mentally manipulate information
●Problem solving; flexible thinking
●As you get older, fluid intelligence speed goes down because the
deprivation of myelin in the brain (increases, then decreases)
■Crystallized
●Accumulation of knowledge
●Collected information
●As you get older, crystallized knowledge becomes stagnant after a
certain age (increases, then flattens out)
○Multiple Intelligence
■Not much empirical research support
■Difference in motivation; not in actual intelligence capability
■Emotional intelligence
●Social ability to recognize and use your own emotions and
someone else's emotions is strongly correlated to academic and
general life success
●Measuring Intelligence
○Traditional, standardized achievement tests (IQ tests) are usually testing “g”
■< 75 = intelligence deficiency
■85-115 = average
■135 = gifted; 145 = highly gifted
■160 = genius
○Removing cultural knowledge
■Bias in IQ tests
Document Summary
Ability to take accumulated knowledge and use it to adapt quickly to reason, decision making, and solving complex problems. Represented as one general underlying mental ability. Common ability to perform in multiple specific domains. Ex: logic supported through writing, mathematics, sciences, etc. When one tends to do well in one domain, they tend to do well in other connected domains. As you get older, fluid intelligence speed goes down because the deprivation of myelin in the brain (increases, then decreases) As you get older, crystallized knowledge becomes stagnant after a certain age (increases, then flattens out) Difference in motivation; not in actual intelligence capability. Social ability to recognize and use your own emotions and someone else"s emotions is strongly correlated to academic and general life success. Traditional, standardized achievement tests (iq tests) are usually testing g . 135 = gifted; 145 = highly gifted. Is intelligence a biological entity or is it based off of social interaction.
