PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Inductive Reasoning, Flynn Effect, Heritability
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Intelligence: the ability to learn, to meet the demands of the environment effectively, and to understand and control one(cid:495)s mental activities. Metacognition: to understand and control one(cid:495)s mental activities. Factor analysis: a statistical method for determining whether certain items on a test correlate highly, thus forming a unified set, or cluster, of items: charles spearman developed this tool for analyzing intelligence. G-factor: a theoretical general factor of intelligence underlying all distinct clusters. S-factor: a theoretical specific factor uniquely tied to a distinct mental ability or of mental ability area of functioning: general intelligence, part of spearman(cid:495)s two-factor theory of intelligence, part of spearman(cid:495)s two-factor theory of intelligence, specific abilities. Spearman"s two-factor theory of intelligence: the g-factor of intelligence represents a broad and deep capability that underlies all other specific mental abilities, or the s-factors. Spearman: iq = g + s: first to come up with intelligence tests in france. Thurstone: iq = g: 7 mental abilities.
