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Intelligence is an exercise in:

Scientific thinking, critical thinking, theory and measure development

Analytical Intelligence

Assessed by intelligence tests

Creative intelligence

Adapting to novel situations, generating novel ideas

Practical Intelligence

Required for everyday tasks

Emotional Intelligence

The ability to perceive, understand, and use emotions

Define creativity

The ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable




Correlates somewhat with intelligence

Describe what intelligence tests do

assess an individuals mental aptitudes and compare them with others using numerical scores

First IQ test was called

Stanford-Binet Test

Aptitude = ________


Achievement = _____________

-Ability


-What you have learned

Principals of test construction, for psychology tests to be acceptable, it must follow the following criteria:

Standardization


Reliability


Validity

Testing reliability (Consistency)

Split-Half Reliability

Alternate forms

Test-Retest Reliability

Inter-rater








Is intelligence genetic?

-60% Genetic


40% environment

Motivation is a need or desire that

-Energizes behaviour


-directs towards a goal

Theories of motivation

Instinct, Drive-reduction, arousal, hierarchy of needs

Instinct theory

Complex behaviours that have fixed patterns throughout different species and are notlearned

Strengths and weaknesses with instinct theory

Strengths: Consistent with animal literature




Weaknesses: Thousands of instincts needed to explain human behaviour.


LABELLING, not explaining



Drive-Reduction Theory

A physiological need creates an aroused tension state (Drive)
-->
Motivates an organism to satisfy that need




Need-->Drive-->Drive-reducing behaviour

Drive reduction theory - push/pull

Pushed by needs


Pulled by incentives

Define homeostasis

The maintenance of a steady internal state (such as temperature)

Optimum arousal

We seek optimum levels of arousal




Too little = boredom




Too much = stressed

Hierarchy of motives

Abraham Moslow




Certain needs have priority over others

Hierarchy of motives - hunger comes first. What is hunger?

Hunger comes first.

Biology of sexual motivation

Estrogen and testosterone

External and Imagined Stimuli

External - what we see, hear, read


Imagined - Fantasies