Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Daniel Goleman, Army Alpha, Cultural Bias

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

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Intelligence is a set of abilities which allows us to: acquire knowledge, think rationally, reason effectively, act purposefully, deal effectively with the environment. Intelligence can be thought of as a capacity rather than a thing. It is a socially constructed concept: sophistication of interneural connections= intelligence. Theories of intelligence: psychometrics, the statistical study of psychological tests. Identifies and measures the abilities that underlie individual differences in performance: tries to provide a measurement-based map of the mind. Observed that school grades in different subjects were positively correlated. O, attri(cid:271)uted to general intelligen(cid:272)e (cid:858)g(cid:859) (cid:272)ore of (cid:858)intelligen(cid:272)e(cid:859) Savant syndrome (10% of autistic) below avg intelligence, but excel in one particular area could be music, art, math calculation, multiple languages, high sensory acuity etc. Kim peak (rain man) had exceptional crystalized intelligence. Lacks fully developed corpus callosum (links 2 halves) Larger prefrontal cortex (which is for working stm) Males 4 to 6x more likely than females.