PSYC10004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Factor Analysis, 6 Years, Block Design
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One hypothesis - each of us possess a certain amount of g, or general intelligence, that influences our ability on all intellectual tasks. Crystallized intelligence: factual knowledge about the world, word meanings, arithmetic, etc. Fluid intelligence: ability to think on the spot by drawing inferences and understanding relations b/w concepts not previously encountered. Measured on iq tests by object assembly, analogies, and identification tasks. Performance on various tests of a single ability tend ot be more similar than performance on tests that are dissimilar similar than performance on tests that are dissimilar. Others see intelligence as comprising many info processing tasks, such as: John carrol proposed the "three-stratum theory of intelligence", a hierarchical integration consisting of: g (general intelligence) Cant measure an infant"s language ability, but you can ask them to. Cant measure an infant"s language ability, but you can ask them to identify drawings of familiar objects or find an objects they have seen being hidden.
