PSY 1102 Lecture 3: Chapter 10 Intelligence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Textbook de nition: mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and us knowledge to adapt to new situations. Factor analysis: a statistical procedure that identi es clusters of related items on a test (i. e items that are highly correlated) looks for clusters, groups of very strong correlations. Imply relationships: a single ability or factor is being measured by all these items (verbal intelligence, spatial intelligence) Thurstone - found 7 primary mental abilities through 56 different test, concluded not a single intelligence, multiple. Word uency, verbal comprehension, spatial ability, perceptual speed, numerical ability, inductive reasoning, memory. Charles spearman - yes there are distinct intelligence, but you can also use these numbers to suggest that there is one underlying ability that implies intelligence. No correlations are negative, some may be weak, but as you see increases in say language ability, you see increases in spacial ability.