PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Functional Fixedness, Egocentrism, Flynn Effect
1 Dec 2012
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October 10, 2012: ability to perform cognitive tasks, ability to learn from past experiences and adapt. Definition: cognitive ability to learn from experience, reason well, remember important info and cope with daily living. Deductive reasoning: concrete conclusion based on general idea. Inductive reasoning: general idea based on concrete information. Insight problems special category of problems to test ability to think outside of box functional fixedness: difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. Extent to which repeated testing produces same result: validity. Extent to which a given test actually measures what you are. Francis galton (cousin of charles darwin) measuring: goal: to quantify intelligence unbiased-ly, recorded how quickly subjects responded to sensory motor tasks faster reaction time = higher intelligence. Alfred binet: determine which students needed special education, 30 short tasks that were related to reasoning, updated the scale by lous terman (from standford) stanford-binet intelligence test.
