Psychology 1000 Chapter 10: Psychology Chapter 10 Textbook Notes

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

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Intelligence: the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. the rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is fairly constant over time: asked experienced teachers what sorts of problems children could solve at different ages. used their answers to develop an interview to see if a child was performing at the mental level for their age. Binet s legacy: an intelligence testing industry emerges y. The factor analysis y researchers administer diverse measures of mental abilities and then correlate them with one another y. Intelligence as specific mental abilities y spearmen s conclusion about the centrality of the g factor was challenged by l. l. Thurstone y thurstone concluded that human mental performance depends not on a general factor but rather on seven distinct abilities, which he called primary mental abilities.