PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Factor Analysis, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill Atkinson

Document Summary

Psyc 100 week 13 intelligence, reasoning, and decision making. Learn and remember information: recognize concepts and their relations o. Different cultures have different values and different definitions of intelligence. Performance on a test is determined by: g factor: general factor, accounts for moderate correlations among different tests o. S factor: factor specific to a particular test. Factor analysis: identifies common factors around groups of tests. If a person scores high on a set of tests, these tests likely measure the same factor. G (common factor for general intelligence) comes from fact that all measures of intelligence are positively correlated. Cattell performed second-order factor analysis and found two major factors: gf = fluid intelligence. Defined by culture-free tasks, such as the ability to see relations among objects. Potential ability to learn and solve problems. Defined by culture-dependent information, such as vocabulary and information learned in schools. What a person has accomplished with fluid intelligence.