PSY 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Inductive Reasoning, Cognitive Test
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3 avenues of research on intelligence and age: Robert sternberg intelligence involves more than just a particular fixed set of characteristics. Knowledge, an important component of intelligence, may become misdirected from the common good to egocentric goals when a person feels omniscient, omnipotent, and invulnerable. Theories of intelligence are multidimensional specifying many domains of intellectual ability. Schaie and horn psychometric approach measuring intelligence as performance on standardized tests. Cognitive structural approach addresses the ways in which people conceptualize and solve problems rather than scores on tests emphasize developmental changes in the modes and styles of thinking. The organization of interrelated intellectual abilities is called the structure of intelligence hierarchy. The lowest level consists of individual questions. These items can be organized into tests at the second level. The third level, primary mental abilities, reflects relations between performances on intelligence tests. Relations between the primary mental abilities produce the second mental abilities at the fourth level.
