PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stereotype Threat, Information Processing, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
30 Jan 2018
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Intelligence: acting and thinking in ways that are adaptive, explains our ability to, solve problems, learn new thing, adapt, range of individual differences in these abilities. Factor analysis: study a large group of people, examine responses to a large number of items. E. g. measure intelligence with 150 items on the test: spearman (1927) G based on items that loaded together. Specific residuals (s) items not explained by g . Spearman"s g represents a general underlying factor of intelligence. What is the basis of g: reaction time, brain size, which part of cortex, louis thurstone (1938, many tests of intelligence today capture these distinct cognitive abilities. Did not agree with concept of g . Multiple intelligences: gardner argues that there are entirely different domains, or areas, of intellectual skill, argued that savants" provided support for these different types of intelligence. Exceptional ability in one (or two) domains, but not exceptional in most other: creative, practical domains.
