PSYC20008 Study Guide - Final Guide: Heredity, Theory-Theory, Dyslexia

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20008
• Professor: Katheirne Johnson

Document Summary

Developmental psychology intelligence and academic abilities: binet: interested in individual differences, why people perform differently in similar tasks. Intelligence as something you acquire from interaction with the world, more environmentally formed: notion of intelligence is one of the most controversial ideas in psychology. Research raises issues about the roles of heredity and environment, effects of wealth and poverty, possibility of improvement. Issues of ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g a sta(cid:374)da(cid:396)d test that (cid:373)easu(cid:396)es o(cid:374)e"s i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:272)apa(cid:271)ility. Intelligence as a single trait (one of the original ideas of iq) What is intelligence: performance on iq tasks are positively correlated (not a causal relationship, hypothesis: individuals possess an amount of g (general intelligence), common to all intellectual tasks. G tells us about how each individual will perform on different intellectual tasks. Intelligence as a few basic abilities: good arguments for viewing iq as more than a single general entity, two types of intelligence: Crystallized intelligence factual knowledge about the world, increases with age.