PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Twin Study, Object Permanence, False Dilemma
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Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important info, and cope with the demands of daily living. Intelligence involves cognitive tasks and the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Steinberg: combines these 2 viewpoints into the definition. Interpreting a social issue, to finding a solution to a difficult math problem, you are a walking marvel of problem solving ingenuity. Deductive reasoning: you come to a concrete conclusion based on a general idea. Inductive reasoning: you generate a general idea given some concrete information. Special category of problems that are designed to test your ability to think outside the box . Functional fixedness: our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. Reliability: a reliable test produces the same result if one person takes it multiple times: intelligence is a static, internal quality. Validity: measure only the trait it is supposed to be measuring. Formally quantify intelligence in an unbiased manner.
