EPSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intelligence Quotient, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Dyscalculia

• School: UIC
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EPSY 100
• Professor: Katsiaficas, Dalal C.

Document Summary

Intelligence: an individual"s ability to adapt to the world in which one lives. Primary mental abilities: several abilities that are independent of one another that make up intelligence. Crystallized intelligence: one"s knowledge base, acquired through experience, education, and living in a particular culture. Fluid intelligence: underlying capacity to make connections among ideas and draw inferences. Binet and simon: first intelligence test in france. Measures: knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual spatial processing, working memory, fluid reasoning. Measure: verbal comprehension, working memory, processing speed, perceptual reasoning. Normal distribution: most people score close to the mean score with few people scoring extremely high or low. Information processing abilities are indicators of intellectual ability. Information-processing approach relies on assumption that individuals who process information efficiently should acquire knowledge and thereby adapt to the world quickly. Brain volume, cortical thickness, and increased gray and white matter are positively associated with iq. Intelligence arises from frontal (prefrontal) and partial cortices.