PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Twin, Intelligence Quotient, Inductive Reasoning
17 Sep 2013
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Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information and cope with the demands of daily living. Edward boring intelligence is whatever intelligence tests measure: fails to capture important cognitive features of intelligence. Psychologists tend to make two assumptions: intelligence involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks and the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Functioning fixedness our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. The qualities of a test: reliability measures the extent to which repeated testing produces consistent results; a reliable test produces the same result if one person takes it multiple times. Included 3 short tasks related to everyday life. Children were asked to name parts of the body, compare lengths and weights, name objects in a picture and define words. A student from stanford adapted the scale became known as the stanford-binet.
