PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Satoshi Kanazawa, David Wechsler, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Ersin Asliturk

Document Summary

Intelligence: the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. Intelligence test: assesses people"s mental abilities and compares them with others, using numerical values. Charles spearman believed we have one general intelligence (g) People often have special abilities that stand out and he helped develop factor analysis. He found that people who score high in some areas, often score higher than average in other areas. He believed that this g factor underlies all intelligent behaviour. Satoshi kanazawa argues that general intelligence evolved as a form of intelligence that helps people solve novel problems i. e. how to find food in a drought. Common problems i. e. how to find a mate, have a different type of intelligence. Kanazawa say that g scores do correlate with the ability to solve novel problems, but do not correlate much with the individual"s skills in evolutionarily familiar situations i. e. social.