PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Factor Analysis, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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Appreciate those who try to improve your way of thinking, they are the ones who will teach you to change the world. Humans think that we have abilities that animals do not have, and thus gives the right to be cruel to animals. Idea that an intelligent being designed us to have the intelligence we have today. We often use the term intelligence as if we were talking about a single characteristic a person possesses we typically talk of someone being intelligent or not period. But let"s consider another characteristic for a moment athletic capability. We could ask someone to perform a number of tasks and, based on their performance, come up with a measure of athletic ability. Factor analysis: test that analysis the results and correlates the results to anything that seems like an outlier. The claim is that there are 7 factors of intelligence verbal comprehension, verbal fluency, number, spatial visualization, memory, reasoning, and perceptual speed.
