Psychology 2040A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Rote Learning, Mental Model, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Laura Reid

Document Summary

Intelligence is a single entity that influences all aspects of cognitive function. Children who dowel on one intellectual task tend to do well on others too. G, general intelligence, influences our ability to think and learn on all intellectual tasks. Fluid intelligence: ability to think on the spot to solve novel problems. Crystallized intelligence: factual knowledge about the world. Primary mental abilities: word fluency, verbal meaning, reasoning, spatial visualization, numbering ,rote memory, and perceptual speed. Fluid intelligence peak around 20 years, then declines; crystallized intelligence increase as age growing. Primary mental abilities are more precise compared with the other two. Tests of each type of intelligence correlate more highly with each other than they do with tests of the other type. Viewing intelligence as many things allows more precise specification of the processes involved in intelligent behavior than do approaches that view it as one thing or a few things .