PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lewis Terman, David Wechsler, Intelligence Quotient

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Definition: there is no scientifical definition, there are hundreds of definitions, however no set one, components: One or several intelligences (in terms of abilities: b. 1 the factor-analysis approach. In order to address/answer the question, researchers use factor-analysis. Allows researchers or identify the common factors that may underlie clusters of test items. One of the co-creators of factor analysis. According to spearman, humans have different abilities. Those different abilities do not represent different intelligences. Instead, they all have one common factor: general intelligence: general intelligence: underlies all the different abilities. According to this guy, we have multiple intelligences that are distinct and independent of each other: word fluency, verbal comprehension, spatial ability, perceptual speed, numerical ability, inductive reasoning, memory. However, even in his own data, modern researchers still saw: b. 2 theories of multiple intelligences proof of general intelligence, gardner. We have multiple intelligences which are completely independent from each other. Logic: brain damage: we lose some abilities, but retain some.