CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Twin, Language Disorder, Intellectual Disability

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P10
• Professor: Lauren Mc Namara

Document Summary

Intelligence is a trait or set of traits on which individuals differ. There is one global ability/capacity that we are all born with and can be measured. Example: child may have ma of 10 but a reading age of 7. Spearman"s g found that he could identify a general attitude that seems to effect, he found he could identify specific abilities that were independent of that general ability. Cattell and horn decided we could have two intelligences: fluid: referred to an ability to solve problems that have not been taught, crystalized: something that was learned, you were not born with it. Adapting to environment, and shaping it so that its easier for them to adapt. Gardner"s: at least 7 kinds of intelligence, independent. Each intelligence is tied to a different type of the brain. Most current test is: the wechsler scales. Tests include both verbal and nonverbal performance measures.