PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Psychometrics

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Delroy Paulhus

Document Summary

Conceptualizing intelligence: you are considered intelligent if you can solve problems that you confront in the environment, this means all flourishing creatures are intelligent because they have managed to adapt to their environment, however humans differ substantially in their ability to fit into their environments. : spearman made up a mathematical technique to: results showed a single common factor which he called g for general intelligence, s (specific) residual: the reminder part of a specific ability test that is unique and not explained by g, hierarchical models of intelligence version of factor analysis, he discovered evidence for 7 primary mental abilities: Leon thurstone had a slightly different: verbal comprehension, verbal fluency, numerical ability, spatial ability, memory, perceptual speed, problem solving, thurstone said that you had to measure these separately and not view them as one (g) like spearman said, both spearman"s view and thurstones are well supported by data, fluid and crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence.