PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Problem Solving, Heredity, Motivation

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: tamararahhal

Document Summary

Articulate, reads a lot, good at crosswords. To engage in various forms of reasoning. A primary intelligence factor that underlies all specific. Found people who score high on one sub-test of intelligence typically score high on all subtests. Performance on all these tasks (math, verbal) depends on this primary factor. People do not have one general intelligence, but rather multiple intelligence. We need to assess/understand all types of intelligence to get the big picture example: the savant syndrome. Gifted in one area but in no other areas example: olympic athletes. Intelligence falls into three classes: analytical intelligence, ability to think critically, analytically, (good students/professors/scientists, creative intelligence, insight, ability to form new ideas, (inventors/musicians, practical intelligence, street smarts, solving everyday life problems, (business owners/con artists) A cluster of traits relating to the emotional side of life. Our abilities to perceive, understand and express emotions.