PSY 202 Final: Introduction to Psychology II - complete course notes
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G general intelligence: a single factor that underlies performance on a variety of mental tests, explaining the strong correlations of abstract thinking the test subjects are just generally all-around intelligent. Fluid: ability to solve, reason and remember not influenced by experience or school; decreases with age, associated with general intelligence. Crystallized: knowledge and abilities acquired from experience and schooling memorizing statistics, terms, dates, etc. Gardner: multiple intelligences interpersonal/social, visual/spatial, local/mathematical, verbal/linguistic, musical/rhythmic, etc. Reaction time to a novel stimuli - intelligence correlates negatively with reaction time (less time taken to react = higher intelligence) Prefrontal cortex activated during reasoning tasks & sophisticated thinking (eg. planning, impulse control, short-term and working memory holding information in the mind while using it in collaboration with other information) Measures mental speed/reaction time, span of working memory, mental self-government (of the different components of the brain that carry out different tasks)
