PSYC 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: David Wechsler, American Psychologist, Inductive Reasoning
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Heredity is a primary determinant of ones intelligence. Charles spearman: intelligence consists of a general factor. Thurstone: spatial ability, perceptual speed, numerical reasoning, verbal meaning, Ability: nature of proposition not have word, uency, memory, and inductive reasoning. Guilford: constructed a cube that contains 120 speci c intellectual abilities. Ones intelligence is the outcome of ones experiences. Socio cultural context of behaviour, role of cognitive processes personal experience, and strategies for information processing valued by culture. Wechsler: aspect of behavior - several tests of intelligence. Later developed the wechsler intelligence scale for children, preschool, and primary scale of intelligence. Flynn e ect is the observation of the rise of average iq scores. Wechsler intelligence scale for children is for children between the ages of 6-16. Can be completed without requiring the ability to read or write. Translated into many language: spansih, norwegian, swedish, french, chinese, greek, and italian. Using (applying) general information abstracted from the culture.
