PS275 Lecture : Ch. 9 Chapter 9 summary
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Piaget defined intelligence as adaptive thinking or action . Intelligence is an intellectual trait or a set of traits that differ among people and so characterizes some people to a greater extent than others. Goal: to indentify precisely what those traits might be and to measure them so that intellectual differences among individual could be described. Concluded that these seven distinct mental abilities really make up spearman"s idea of g. Later multicomponent theories of intelligence: j. p guilford 180 basic mental abilities, he arrived at this figure by first classifying cognitive tasks into three major dimensions. Content- what must the person think about. Operations- what kind of thinking is the person asked to perform. Fluid intelligence: the ability to perceive relationships and solve relational problems of the type that are not taught and are relatively free of cultural influences: e. g. verbal analogies and number series tests.