Intelligence and Thinking

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Intelligence and Thinking

Intelligence

Theories of intelligence

Analogies

Factor analysis results

Thurstone’s 7 factors (1938)

Cattell’s second-order analysis (1966)

Sternberg’s Triarchic theory

Gardner’s neuropsychological theory

Intelligence testing

Potential problems with IQ tests

Mental retardation

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Thinking and language

Which of these are fruit?

Components of cognition

Mental models

Obstacles to problem solving

Help and harm by heuristics

Misleading heuristics

Who is more likely to believe in UFOs...a 40-year-old member of a cult or a recent college graduate?

Heuristics and rationality

Framing effects

Beliefs bias our use of reason: Form and content concordant

Belief bias: Form and content discordant

Belief bias observed: Form and content concordant

Belief perseverance

What can we do?

The Luchins water jar problem

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