Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Flynn Effect, Mental Scale, Job Performance
3 Jun 2016
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Spawned the development of standardized intelligence tests. Thus, binet & simon created a test that enabled them to identify slow learners and to estimate all children s levels of intellectual development. School administrators began using mental age as a guideline for planning curricula. Factor analysis & the multi-component view of intelligence. Other psychometric theorists were quick to challenge the notion that a single score adequately represented human intellectual performance. Thurstone (1938) identified seven primary mental abilities that make up. Spearman s idea of g spatial ability, perceptual speed, numerical reasoning, verbal meaning, word fluency, and inductive reasoning. Scores people obtain on these presumably independent intellectual factors are often correlated, suggesting that these abilities are not nearly as independent as guilford has assumed. Carroll (1993) three-stratum theory of intelligence: represents intelligence as a pyramid g at the top, and 8 broad intellectual abilities at the 2nd level.
