PSYB65H3 Lecture 5: HLTB02 - Lecture 5.docx
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Lecture 5: measures of child health and cognitive development. First to advance the theory of general intelligence. Ideas present themselves by association with some object or with previous ideas. Ideas are fixed by attention: attention span enables an individual to manipulate or come up with ideas. Focused on 3 main ideas: rate at which associated ideas come to an individual, used psychometric measures to determine the rate of associated thought for an individual. Found the average thought possible per minute was 50: each individual varied along a continuum, periods in life in which they were originally formed, early, and more education enables excess amount of thought/idea development. In 1904, he published an article on general intelligence. Came up with the notion that gi is made up on two different factors: 1: g factor: measure of cognitive ability. 10/17/2012: described as a biological based variable that is the product of evolution, s factor: measure of a particular type of testing.
