Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Subset, Metacomet, Dementia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

A concept that refers to individual differences in abilities to: Psychometrics the statistical study of psychological tests. Intelligence performance governed only by specific abilities. Spearman"s g factor (1904) a theory of general intelligence termed g. G is a kind of mental energy which flows into everything a person does. A person who is good at mathematics is probably also good at reading comprehension, has a wide vocabulary, etc. Thus g or general intelligence is a type of mental energy which allows one to be consistently good or poor at a variety of different tasks. In addition to g spearman also proposed that there were special abilities termed s. S is the mental energy specific to a particular task. Therefore if you are good at math it is a combination of g and s. S is necessary to account for variability across tasks (better at some than others)