PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Intelligence Quotient, Confirmation Bias

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Michael Inzlicht

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Intelligence: a combination of being able to learn quickly, make reasonable decisions, and adapt to diverse challenges. Dread risks: born of uncommon events, can have a profound impact on reasoning and decision making. People who are better at using info are intelligent. ***there is very little correspondence between what a violin looks like or sounds like and the letters that make up the word violin*** Kosslyn and others have shown that visual imagery is associated with activity in perception-related areas of the brain (primary visual cortex). These areas are responsible for providing spatial aspects of analogical visual imagery (ex: sixe and shape) Kosslyn and colleagues found in a brain imaging study that participants asked to recall images they had just memorized demonstrated that analogical representations activate the primary visual cortex www. notesolution. com. If something cannot be wholly perceived by our perceptual system we cannot have a complete analogical representation of it. Mental maps involve a mixture of analogical and symbolic representations.