PSYCH 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Visual Processing, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Short-Term Memory
28 Mar 2017
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Social contexts bbm levels, community, religious groups, state/country. Intelligence capacity to survive, succeed, intersection of self and context: social networking, politics, power, strength and capacity, cognitive skills. Intelligence: is socially constructed, is adaptive, is related to learning ability, involves use of prior knowledge, involves many different mental processes, is culturally specific. Intelligence: overall, intelligence involves successful adaptation to the environment, historically, cognitive skills have been prioritized: Abstract reasoning, problem solving, decision making, speed of processing: however adaptation involves other skills, and what is valued varies across cultures. Facilitating and maintaining social relationships, motivation, social skills, practical skills. Theoretical and historical perspectives: spearman two factor theory of intelligence. Single pervasive reasoning ability (g) ability to process information quickly and efficiently (neural processes) Multiple specific factors (s) verbal, non verbal: intelligence comprises general ability as well as specific skills, general mental ability (g) Cattell: intelligence is g and then. Fluid intelligence ability to acquire knowledge quickly adapt to new situations.
