PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Brain Damage, Lewis Terman, Psychological Testing

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Maggie Parker (Ma)

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Intelligence is the mental potential to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. Intelligence does not have the same meaning to everyone worldwide. Ex: in cameroon"s equatorial forest, intelligence may be understanding the medicinal qualities of local plants. In a north american high school, it may be mastering difficult concepts in tough courses. Spearman believed that humans have one general intelligence (g) that is at the heart of all our intelligent behavior, from navigating the sea to excelling in school. He noted that those who score high in one area, such as verbal intelligence, typically score higher than average in other areas, such as spatial or reasoning ability. This belief stemmed from his work with factor analysis, a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items. Gardner and sternberg discount this theory and propose several different kinds of intelligence.