PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Mental Age, Synaptic Pruning, Positron Emission Tomography
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Internal (analytic): acquiring info, planning, monitoring, evaluating problems and directions. External (creative): some tasks require a special way of thinking-like navigating through a foreign country. Types of intelligence: emotional intelligence: as individual"s ability to perceive, express, assimilate and regulate emotion. Distinction between metnal and chronological age becomes less informative when testing adults. Need for greater fairness when testing people who don"t speak english well. Developed the wechsler-bellevue intelligence scale, published 1939. Robert merton: cultural bias in intelligence test- different cultures value different things (western-math, verbal fluency. Intelligence-genetic vs. environmental: bell curve controversy- herrnstein and murray, conventional iq is accurate. Iq is an important predictor of many measures of success in life. Higher iq predicts avoidance of welfare and criminality: people high in intelligence form a cognitive elite and reach upper levels of. Iq tests should be a gating mechanism-those with high iq more opportunities. 5: clear racial and ethnic differences, clear racial and ethnic differences.
