PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Generation Gap, Heritability, Factor Analysis
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A unitary trait: sees intelligence as a single global mental capacity. Multifaceted: there are distinct forms of intelligence that may or may not correlate with each other. Useful in examining how potentially important aspects of the construct intelligence are or are not related. Also promoted ideas of s" factors, but these were subsets and less important. Underlies the other factors, but some abilities may be enhanced (e. g. , athletic. Gardner"s mutilple types of intelligence (1983, 1993, 1995, 1999) Analytical intelligence: emphasizes thinking critically and analytically, will excel in school. Practical intelligence: emphasizes ability to cope with everyday demands and to manage self and ohers, will excel on the streets . Creative intelligence: emphasizes insight and ability to formulate ideas, will excel in creating new things/ideas. Metacomponents: planning, problem solving, fluid intelligence. Performance components: necessary mental processes such as recall. Knowledge-acquisition components: learning, storing information, combining new insights with previous information, crystallized intelligence. Metacomponents: strategy for finding the word.
