PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Social Learning Theory, Kanzi, Speech Segmentation
14 Oct 2016
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Intelligence: cognitive ability to reason well, learn from experience, remember important info, and cope with demands of daily life. Deductive reasoning: ideas & general info > specific conclusion. Functional fixedness: difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. Insight problems: require thinking out of the box. Quality of test depends on reliability and validity: reliability: same result if one person repeats test, validity: actually measures trait it is supposed to be. Francis galton: measured reaction time, believed it was measure of intelligence. Stanford-binet intelligence test: 30 tasks related to everyday life. Charles spearman: believed intelligence reflected in overall performance, all tasks: called intelligence g People who do well on one type of intelligence test likely to do well on others. Identical twins have stronger correlation of iq than fraternal: separated identical twins still have strong correlation, both play role, relative importance undetermined. Flynn effect: iq scores have been increasing: may be explained by increase in quality of life.
