PSYC 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Logic Puzzle, Stereotype Threat, Intellectual Disability

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100B
• Professor: Louise Chim

Document Summary

Intelligence is the mental potential to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. Iq is described as a thing someone has instead of a score they received on an intelligence test. Reification: viewing an abstract, immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing. Pe(cid:396)petuates the idea that this (cid:862)thi(cid:374)g(cid:863) is so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)el(cid:455) e(cid:454)ists i(cid:374) the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld. Charles spearman (1863 1945) believed we have one general intelligence (often shortened to g) that is at the heart of all our intelligent behaviour, from navigating the sea to excelling in school. He noted that those who score high in one area, such as verbal intelligence, typically score higher than average in other areas, such as spatial or reasoning ability. While different abilities, such as verbal and spatial, do have some tendency to correlate, human abilities are too diverse to be encapsulated by a single general intelligence factor.