PSYCH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hisor, Job Performance, Social Environment
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Intelligence test: a diagnostic tool designed to measure the overall thinking ability. Abstract thinking: the capacity to understand hypothetical concepts, rather than the concepts in the here and now. Intelligence consists of the ability to: reason abstractly. Learn to adapt to novel environmental circumstance: acquire knowledge, benefit from experience. Items on iq exams: the correlation among these items are all positive, people who get one item correct are likely to get the others correct. Charles spearman proposed that there are multiple intelligences: entirely different domains of intellectual skills: multiple intelligence implies that the g is just a part of our intelligence but not the whole thing. According to spearman how we perform on tasks depends on our general intelligence and out s(specific abilities). Fluid intelligence: refers to the capacity to learn new ways of solving problems, this ability decreases with age, used to solve problems. Gard(cid:374)er"s (cid:373)odel: states that (cid:449)e (cid:448)ar(cid:455) i(cid:374) i(cid:374)telle(cid:272)tual stre(cid:374)gths a(cid:374)d (cid:449)eak(cid:374)esses.
