PSYA02H3 Chapter 11: CHAPTER 11 TEXTBOOK - INTELLIGENCE NOTES

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

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In general, if people do well academically or succeed at tasks that involve their heads, we consider them to be intelligent. Most psychologists would define intelligence as a person"s ability to learn and remember information, to recognize concepts and their relations, and to apply the information to their own behaviour in an adaptive way. Recently psychologists have pointed out that any definition of intelligence depends on cultural judgements. The study of intelligence is dominated by three main approaches: differential approach. it favours the development of tests that identify and measure individual differences in people"s abilities to solve problems, particularly those that use skills important in the classroom. e. g. , these tests ask people to define words, explain proverbs, solve arithmetic problems, discover similarities in shapes and patterns, and answer questions about a passage of prose: developmental approach. it studies the ways in which children learn to perceive, manipulate, and think about the world.