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PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Heritability, Cerebral Palsy, Dustin Hoffman

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7 Jun 2012
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UTSC
Department
Psychology
Course
PSYA02H3
Professor
John Bassili

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Intelligence as we know is important in our society. It is a mental skill but the question becomes whether it is a general thing or if there are many kind of intelligence. There are many intelligent people in the world. Mental tasks can be thought of as sports. In the sense that there are many and while some are similar and require similar skills as others, there still exist a few that are totally different. If someone is good a one they may also be good at another but not necessarily all of them, kind of like having different types of intelligences. Spearman in 1927 was the first psychologist to theorize about human intelligence. He separated intelligence into the g factor, which represented general cognitive abilities and the s factor which signified specific. Method used to further study the underlying structure of intelligence.

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1. Another form of intelligence that has attracted a lot of attention is emotional intelligence. A person with a high emotional IQ A) has the ability to read others' emotions accurately B) often have even higher verbal IQ scores C) usually doesn't attend university D) are intellectually disabled in a general sense E) both A&C

1. Another form of intelligence that has attracted a lot of attention is emotional intelligence. A person with a high emotional IQ A) has the ability to read others' emotions accurately B) often have even higher verbal IQ scores C) usually doesn't attend university D) are intellectually disabled in a general sense E) both A &C

10. Mr. Inwood is a retired business man. He finds that his thinking pattern has changed significantly from when he was in his early thirties. According to Cattell, Mr. Inwood's thinking has progressed from using _intelligence to depending more on intelligence A) the g factor, s factor B) fluid, crystallized C) verbal, performance D) non-verbal, verbal E) crystallized, fluid