PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: David Lubinski, Rote Learning, Psychometrics
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Psychometric approach ability that underlie test performance. Psychometric: maps the structure of intellect and specifies the kinds of mental. Cognitive: studies specific thought processes that underlie mental competencies. Psychometrics statistical study of psychological tests. Standardization, reliability, and validity are all psychometric concepts. Tries to identify and measure abilities that underlie individual differences in performance on tests. A factor allows us to infer the underlying characteristics that presumably accounts for the links among the variables in the cluster. Some believe intelligence is a single global mental capacity, while others regard it is a set of specific abilities to do different types of thinking. Charles spearman found that school grades among different subjects were often positively correlated, but not perfectly. Concluded that intellectual performance is determined partly by general intelligence ( g ) and partly by other special abilities required to perform a particular task.
