PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Heritability
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Any definition of intelligence depends on varying cultures based on a different range of necessary skills required for survival in that culture. Although psychs have devised tests that give a single number, iq, it does not mean that intelligence is a single general characteristic. Hockey player example trying to play baseball but couldn"t. There are 2 controversial views on intelligence: specific abilities are totally independent, one general factor influences all abilities. From correlations among various tests of particular intellectual abilities. Suppose we administer 10 different tests of intellectual abilities to a group of people. If each test measures a separate independent ability, the scores of the ppl on one test will be unrelated to the scores on other tests, the correlations amongst the tests will be 0. It the tests measure the same abilities, they the scores will be related and the correlation will be 1. 0.
