PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intelligence Quotient, Intellectual Disability, Mental Image

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Pearlberg Steven

Document Summary

Cognition: internal mental processes including nfo processing, thinking, reasoning, problem solving. Mental image: representation of any sensory experience store in memory that can be retrieved for use later. Children likely to use visual images in thinking. Intelligence: capacity to think rationally deal effectively with environment. Prototype: averaging all members of category may not resemble real instance. Exemplar: specific memory of a category used to represent the category. More similar new objects, more likely to include them in your concept, Both approaches able to account for tendency of people to relate apples as more fruits than avocados. Alfred binet - instructed to devise objective assessment with simon developed tests to compare older children to younger children. 13 or 14 year olds didn"t have growth anymore so could not measure intelligence difference between ages. Use iq to test for autism (additional tests also taken) Savant syndrome= autistic people are exceptionally bright in music, math.