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Intelligence

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The ability to generalize (Memory); flexibly use knowledge (Concepts) to solve new problems (Problem solving)
* Learning from experience and adapt that learning to your environment when making decisions
* Acting purposefully

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ChaptGPT solves ______ decision-making and reasoning tasks similarly to humans

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Ambiguous
- Maybe chatgpt can reason beyond rules ? but counter to that : we feed Chatgpt all our data, and problems like the Linda one are very famous : it could be pulling from our responses

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ChaptGPT can do these tasks

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  • Automated tasks
  • Routine activities
  • Create content
  • Create Bizarre songs
  • Co-create movie with AI
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ChatGPT cannot do these tasks

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  • Editing: Avoid repetition in content
  • Write accurate news articles
    Provides ‘fake news’
  • Cannot provide opinions or advice
  • Can’t create original puzzles
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IQ tests have been designed to measure general intelligence differences but …

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Other factors underlie differences on these tests aside from “intelligence”

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Psychometrics

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  • The study of psychological assessment
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Standardization

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  • Test scores are compared to pre-tested ‘standardization’ or ‘norm’ groups (people that took the test before)
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IQ tests scores

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  • Average score of 100; Standard deviation of 15
  • 95% of people within two standard deviations (between 70 and 130)
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Highest recorded IQ

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  • theoretically no limit to IQ scores
    Younghoon Kim: IQ of 276
  • highest recorded IQ
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Reliability

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Consistency across instances of testing
* IQ scores have high test-retest reliability
* Score at age 6 correlates with scores at age 18
* But can change with environment and education, which can dampen down the reliability

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Validity

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The test is measuring what it is intended to measure
IQ scores should have predictive validity :
* Should predict performance on something requiring intelligence
* Yet, low correlations ( r = .5, low to mid) with job performance
* Intelligence will vary across context and culture

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Francis Galton (1822 to 1911)

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one of first thinkers to suggest intelligence could be measured
* Founded the eugenics movement
* Racially-motivated view of how to “improve” society
* A dark start to intelligence testing

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Alfred Binet

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Developed a test in response to a request from the French government
* Identify children that needed special education in school
Binet viewed intelligence as as important for:
* Practical life, adapting to circumstances judging and reasoning well

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Binet thought his test measured ______, not intelligence

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Academic output

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Simon-Binet Test

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30 questions of increasing difficulty (easy → hard)
* Easy items: Follow a light beam, answered easily by young children
* Difficult items: Describe abstract words, for older more educated children (e.g. state difference between abstract words)
* Some questionable items
Standardization : A child’s mental age was calculated by comparing the score /30 to the score of a group of children the same chronological age
- Platform for the current IQ test

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The Stanford-Binet Test

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Based on the Simon-Binet test
Item for a 4 years old
“Repeat the following numbers: 3 6 7”
Item for an Adult
“Describe the difference between misery and poverty”
IQ (intelligence quotient) as we know it :
* IQ RATIO scores : (Mental Age (MA) / Chronological Age (CA)) * 100
* If MA > CA, ability is above average of peers (gifted)
* If MA < CA, ability is below average of peers (delayed)
IF MA = CA : IQ = 100 (average)

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Wechsler Tests

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  • Measuring different components of intelligence
  • Separate scales for children and adults
  • Separate scales for different types of intelligence
  • Wechsler intelligence scale for CHILDREN (WISC)
  • Wechsler ADULT intelligence scale (WAIS)
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Components of full scale IQ (FSIQ) in Wechsler tests

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  1. Verbal IQ (VIQ)
    Similarities
    - Explain what two words have in common
    - Analogical Reasoning
    Vocabulary :
    - define words
  2. Performance IQ (PIQ)
    Picture completion
    - Determine what is missing from a picture
    Picture arrangement
    - Organize pictures in a logical order to represent a story
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Pros and cons of Weschler tests

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Pro :
- Total of 14 different test : good tests because they acknowledge different types of abilities
Cons :
- culturally biased and they’re affected by our language function (e.g. not all cultures play cards, use the same words)

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Raven’s progressive matrices

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Shown patterns with a missing section
* Asked to determine the missing piece from a set of options
Non-verbal assessment :
* Relatively free from linguistic influences and thus free from cultural biases

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Factors affecting IQ performance

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  • Socioeconomics : richer people have more time to help their children do well, send to good schools
  • Gender differences in self-estimated intelligence : men are more confident in their own IQ = higher test anxiety for women
  • Culture: Familiarity with task and stimuli can affect performance
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Genetics and IQ

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  • Shared genetics is a better predictor of IQ score similarity (correlations) than the environment : accounts for 50 to 70% of variability in these scores
    Identical twins in separate environments : their similarity of IQ is as much as high as identical twins raised together, and it’s much higher than fraternal twins that were raised apart or raised together.
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The Flynn effect

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In 1980s, for all the tests, Americans’ IQ scores increased 3 points per decade over 100 years

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Flynn effect: Education

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  • In most countries that have reported an increase in IQ scores, like the states, you see an increase in educational opportunities.
  • In the states in the 30s, people had about 8 to 9 years of education on average, and then in the 1990’s the average number of education, years of education rose to 12 to 14.
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Flynn effect: Complexity and health
Complexity * More focus on abstract and critical thinking, especially in wealthier countries - More stimulating complex environment Health * A greater focus on health, improves brain function and enhances IQ scores - A healthier diet and exercice leads to less brain atrophy with age - certain diet and exercise combinations can affect energy production in your brain that helps with maintaining your neurons.
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The view that intelligence is a ... drives IQ testing
single thing
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Spearman’s two factor theory
Found that tests of cognitive abilities (memory, attention, processing speed) correlated with one another * Suggested that higher correlations are driven by a common reliance on a single factor : general intelligence (g) : the single entity of intelligence.
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G factor vs S factors in Spearman's two factor theory
g factor : varies across people but is stable within a person (genetic basis) s factors : performance on tasks, are affected by education and environment, and vary both within a person and across people; why I might have different abilities than somebody else with a similar G score.
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Cattell and Horn Theory
Fluid intelligence (similar to g) and crystalized intelligence (similar to s)
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Fluid intelligence (Cattel and Horn theory)
* The capacity to acquire new knowledge and engage in flexible thinking - Important for all forms of intelligence : domain free * Tests of reasoning * Genetic basis
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Crystalized intelligence (Cattel and Horn theory)
* Knowledge and learning that has been acquired throughout the lifetime * Vocabulary, math * Affected by personality, education, culture * Motivated learning
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How do crystalized and fluid intelligences change in time ?
Crystalized intelligence increase as we learn and remain stable/increase over time - Fluid intelligence decreases with age because fluid intelligence really depends on executive functioning, which is supported by the prefrontal cortex
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Savant Syndrome
A person who is otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific ability * E.g., artistic skills or math abilities (counting) * Suggests there are different forms of intelligence, that are supported by different cognitive processes
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Developmental cases of savant syndrome
Often presents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (10% of people with autism spectrum disorder will have a sort of savant skill)
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Savant syndrome from brain injury
People who acquire specific skills from brain injury Tony Cicoria * After being struck by lightening, a man developed exceptional piano skills Orlando Serell * Baseball hit his head, and developed the ability to perform calendar calculations
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Cause of savant syndrome
To compensate for damage, other areas of the brain will be ‘rewired’ to induce savant-like capabilities :neuroplasticity that unleashes sleeping potential
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Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences
- Different types of intelligence just relate to different ways of learning that might be supported by different brain areas. - some people might use different brain networks or areas differently than others. Everybody has strengths and weaknesses : many ways to be intelligent
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Sternberg’s theory of intelligence
A process view Intelligence is not … * a system or structure Intelligence is … * the mental capacity to automatize information processes * use them in appropriate settings * thus, can vary
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Sternberg’s intellectual components
1. **Meta-component** * Higher order processes for planning and decision making. 2. **Performance component** * Processes for executing a task 3. **Knowledge acquisition component** * Processes to learn and store new information These components are universal, important for all types of intelligence, and we use these in different situations at different levels
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Triarchic theory: Types of intelligence
(1) Intellectual components interact with certain materials/tasks (2) that are relevant to a given situation (3)
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Analytic intelligence (Triarchic theory)
- very similar to the conventional views of intelligence like G - about analyzing, computing and sort of just evaluating information - people high in this dimension of intelligence might be good computer programmers and problem solvers
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Practical intelligence (triarchic theory)
* The ability to apply information to daily ambiguous situations and emphasizes contextual information that helps you deal with daily situations well : automatically recognize what's going to lead to success on a task in their environment. * E.g., Delivery persons who can intelligently navigate routes when there are road-blocks
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Creative intelligence (triarchic theory)
* The ability to think in new ways and apply information flexibly * Emphasizes experiential information and linked to insight problem solving
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Positive mood leads to _____ thinking
Broad
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Positive mood and misinformation
A positive mood promotes a general “assimilative thinking” style, and leads to greater susceptibility to misinformation, more broad world view
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A negative mood promotes specific “_____ thinking” style, and lowers susceptibility to misinformation
Focused
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False memories and mood
In a positive mood : more likely to agree that misleading information occurred, more likely to assimilate false information into their memories. Negative mood : able to discriminate between correct and misleading details.

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