PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Child Prodigy, Educational Entrance Examination, Divergent Thinking
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These processes included reasoning, understanding, and judgement: most experts agree that intelligence has to do with abstract thinking. Intelligence consists of the abilities to: reason abstractly, learn to adapt to novel environment circumstances, acquire knowledge, benefit from experience. Intelligence test: diagnostic tool designed to measure overall intelligence. G (general intelligence): hypothetical factor that accounts for overall differences in intellect among people. S (specific abilities): particular ability level in narrow domain: fluid and crystallized intelligence, cattell and horn distinguished between the two. Crystallizing it into lasting knowledge: abilities increase with age, moderately and positively associated to personality trait openness to experience, researchers believe these 2 models undermine the existence of g . Fluid intelligence: capacity to learn new ways of problem solving. Crystallized intelligence: accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time: multiple intelligences: different ways of being smart. Entirely different domains of intellectual sjukk: gardner, there are numerous frames of mind, or different ways of thinking about the world.
