PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Factor Analysis, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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Intelligence: person"s ability to learn and remember info, recognize concepts + relations, apply info to own behaviour in adaptive way. Any definition of intelligence depends on cultural judgements. Differential approach: tests that id and measure indiv. diff. in people"s knowledge and ability to solve problems. Developmental approach: the way children learn to perceive, manipulate,+ think about world. Information processing approach: skills people use to think and to solve problems. Spearman person"s performance on test determined by 2 factors, g & s. G factor factor of intelligence common to all intellectual tasks (i. e. apprehension of experience, eduction of relations/correlates) S factor factor of intelligence specific to a particular task. Solving analogies requires all three g factor abilities. Apprehension of experience (reading and understanding the words in the analogy) Eduction of relations (ability to perceive the relation) Eduction of correlates (apply a rule inferred from one case to a similar one)
