PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Intellectual Disability, Mental Age

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

There is no singular definition of intelligence. Psychometric approach (thorndike) portrays intelligence as a trait on which individuals differ, responsible for the dev of standardized intelligence tests. Binet-simons test age-graded: binet dev first successful intelligence test, intelligence is a general mental ability. Mental age (ma) measure of intellectual dev that reflects the level of age-graded problems a child is able to solve: used as a guideline for planning curricula for both normal and retarded students. Primary mental abilities (thurstone) 7 mental abilities believed to represent the structure of intelligence altogether make up spearman"s idea of g. Guilford classified cognitive tasks into 3 major dimensions: content, operations, products: 5 kinds of intellectual contents, 6 kinds of mental operations, 6 kinds of intellectual products. Structure-of-intellect model (guilford) proposes that there are 180 distinct mental abilities, based on all possible combinations of the various intellectual contents, operations, and products (5x6x6 = 180: scores on independent intellectual factors tend to be interrelated.