PSYC 3090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alfred Binet, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

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10 May 2017
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Intelligence multifaceted capacity that includes several things. Lay public study found that experts include motivation + interpersonal intelligence. People have different expectations of intelligence at different stages of development. Eugenics, sensorimotor tests to measure his definition of intelligence. Alfred binet defined various components of intelligence, criticized cause we need more complex measurements of intellectual ability. Wechsler thought it was capacity for individual to act purposefully. Best way to measure intelligence was to measure several qualitatively differentiable abilities. Piaget saw intelligence as evolving biological adaptation and interaction with environment, focused on children. Learning happens through assimilation active organization of new information into existing schema. And accommodation, adjustment of existing schema to new information. Interactionism: mechanism by which heredity and environment presumed to interest and influence the development of intelligence. Focus on identify ability or groups of abilities. Factor analysis determine existence of underlying relationships between sets of variables. Spearman general intelligence factor (g) and specific factors (s)

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