PSYA02H3 Lecture : Chapter 11 psya02 note.docx
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There are three dominant approaches to the study of intelligence. The differential approach favours the development of tests that identify and measure individual differences in people"s abilities to solve problems particulary those that use skills important in the classroom. For example, these tests ask people to define words, explain proverbs, solve arithmetic problems, doscover similarities in shapes and patterns and answer questions about a passage of prose. The developmental approach studies the ways in which children learn to perceive, manipulate and think about the world. The most influential proponent of this approach was the swiss psychologist jean piaget. The information processing approach focuses on the types of skills people use to think and to solve various types of problems. The g factor, which is a general factor, and the s factor, which is a factor specific to particular test. Spearman didn"t call his g factor intelligence ; he considered the term too vague.
