PSYO 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Job Performance, Predictive Validity, Tiger Woods

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 1012
• Professor: Stevens Leanne

Document Summary

Many people consider intelligence the trait that sets us apart from animals. Not easy to define, it changes, its different for different people - can"t measure it. According to expert, intelligence is: a set of cognitive skills that includes abstract thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and the ability to acquire knowledge. Other less-agreed-on qualities of intelligence include mathematical ability, general knowledge, and creativity. Different theorists add other components to this definition, but they are not uniformly accepted (the theories) Charles spearman: his theory, the g-factor theory : His research showed that specific factors of intelligence (spatial, verbal, perceptual, and quantitative factors ) positively correlated strongly with each other. = suggests that they were all measuring the same thing. People who achieve high scores on one factor of the intelligence test are likely to have high scores on the other sections (predictive power: test scores. The overall intelligence score is determined by the specific scores on subtests.