PS275 Lecture Notes - Robert Sternberg, Prenatal Care, Asian Americans
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Chapter 8: intelligence: the psychometric approach variety of intelligence tests available for assessing children"s mental abilities to cognitive development is the basis for the wide, the psychometric perspective is product oriented, largely concerned with outcomes and results. Table 8. 1 five traits most often mentioned by students characterizing. Ability: verbalization, creativity, with age, sensorimotor responsiveness becomes less important, while verbal. Three way tie: awareness of people and environment, motor coordination, learning ability, verbal ability. Adults: reasoning, curiosity, creativity, alertness ability, problem solving, and reasoning become more important. The factor analysts: a multifaceted view: to find out whether intelligence is a single trait or an assortment of abilities, researchers used a complication correlational procedure calling factor analysis. Ability : using factor analysis, many researchers tried to identify the mental abilities that contribute to successful intelligence test performance. John carrol reanalyzed relationships among items in hundreds of studies; findings yielded a three-stratus theory of intelligence: elaborates the models proposed by.
