PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Howard Gardner, Verbal Fluency Test, Spatial Ability
13 Sep 2016
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Chaps 9-12; 65 mc + 2 se (short essays) q"s. Chaps 13-16; 65 mc + 2 se (short essay) q"s. Experience with research counts towards 10 points on any exam. Psychologists cannot agree on a precise definition of intelligence. Boring"s definition: intelligence is whatever intelligence tests measure . Internal capacity hypothesized to explain people"s ability to: * use of psychological tests to measure the mind and mental processes. Spearman was the first to use psychometrics: factor analysis: a procedure that groups together related items by analyzing correlations among them, general intelligence called the g factor. Underlies performance on a variety of mental tests: separate factor s specific intelligence. Unique to each particular test (mathematical, linguistic, scientifically, artistic, intelligence . G is more fundamental, basic, on the surface. Howard gardener"s theory of intelligence focuses specifically on specific intelligence. Several kinds of primary mental abilities (not just g ) (basically howard gardner) Fluid vs. crystallized intelligence: dividing up general intelligence.
