Differential Psychology

• Differential Psychology concerns itself with the variations in individuals
• We have a consistency paradox - we tend to see people as being relatively consistent despite being unable to predict their actual behavior at any one time.

Intelligence §

• Intelligence is one of the most elusive to define. Intelligence can simply be viewed as the ability to respond adaptively to one’s environment, but this ability may involve many aspects.

• The main flaw with intelligence tests is that they do not measure intelligence itself but the qualities that are thought to reflect it

• There could be two types of intelligence — one that is inborn (genetic) and one that is acquired through experience. ¹.

Personality §

Links §

• Psychology — A Very Short Introduction by Butler and McManus

Footnotes §

1. Aka Nature vs Nurture. There is evidence that some part of intelligence is genetic. ↩