PSY 202 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Vocab Song, Twitter, Switzerland
12 Oct 2018
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Intro to psych ii-lecture 1- intelligence and iq testing. Galton"s theory: people who have better senses will acquire more knowledge, but , sensory capacities are weakly linked to each other and are not related to general intelligence/intellect. Binet and simon"s first iq test judgment: we can agree that intelligence is related to capacity to comprehend, focused on (cid:498)higher(cid:499) mental processing such as reasoning, understanding and. Wechsler intelligence scales: verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, processing speed a (cid:498)full scale )q(cid:499, a sum of all these standard (scaled) scores in this categories give you. General vs specific: creation of g & s: general intelligence (g): overall difference in intellect among people, + correlations among the items above on the )q tests led to spearman"s. )mportant for (cid:498)g(cid:499)/ )q: prefrontal cortex and (parietal cortex, cortical thickness, glucose metabolism, g is like size and the sum of scaled scores, particular skills are reflected in our specific abilities(s, individual scales (s)
