PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Psychometrics, Habituation, Dyslexia
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Is it important in predicting real life factors: someone can have low levels of intelligence but strives can correlate to success (or vise versa, not really correlated to school success, one thing iq is almost always correlated to is socio economic status (how much money you are going to make, people who earn top salaries almost always make the most money, people who have high intelligence, are creative. The factor analytic approach: named after a statistical analysis, factor analysis examines how closely concepts are related to each other, spearmen thought it didn"t matter your specific iq , it would round up to the same number, spearman (1927) concluded that intelligence consisted of, a general factor (g, number of specific factors(s, modern researcher confirms existence of general cognitive ability, closely related factors, and factors that are independent from each other, strong data that tell us spearmen.
