PS102 Lecture Notes - Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Alarm Clock, Intelligence Quotient
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Intelligence: an individual"s ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning and to overcome obstacles by taking thought. General intelligence: the g (general underlying skill) factor. Specific abilities- s factors (specific subset of skills for that particular task) Operations, content, product (which gives you a score) G = fluid (more biological/inherit contribution) + crystallized intelligence (what you were taught) Crystallized- ability to apply acquired knowledge/ skills when problem solving. Today we still use fluid g factor crystallization and sternberg. Based on the bell curve or normal distribution. Comparison group is the rest of the population. Ability of a test to yield nearly the same score each time a person takes the test or an alternative of the test (reliable friend, alarm clock, weigh scale) Ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure.
