PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Satoshi Kanazawa, Savant Syndrome, Amazon Rainforest
6 Aug 2012
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Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Intelligence has been defined as whatever intelligence tests measure, which has tended to be school smarts. But intelligence is not a quality like height and weight, which ahs the same meaning to everyone around the globe. People assign the term intelligence to the qualities that enable success in their own time and in their own culture. In the amazon rain forest, intelligence may be understanding the medicinal qualities of local plants. American high school, it may be mastering difficult concepts in tough courses. In both locations, intelligence is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. Charles spearman general intelligence test (or g as it is commonly called); people often have special abilities that stand out and he helped develop factor analysis, a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items.
