PSYC 2500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Heredity, Internet Relay Chat Services
6 Mar 2017
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Simon-binet intelligence test children were asked to interpret proverbs, solve puzzles, define words and sequence cartoon panels so that the jokes made sense. Binet"s approach was successful at identifying children who would have difficulty learning from classroom instruction. Intelligence as a few basic abilities (a few things) Intelligence as numerous processes (many things: a proposed resolution. People have this amount of intelligence and we can quantify it in a single dimension. Almost all intellectual task performance is positively correlated across a wide range of tasks. Each individual possesses a certain amount of g (general intelligence) cognitive processes that influence the ability to think and learn on all intellectual tasks. This part of intelligence is common to all intellectual tasks. That"s why these measurements co-relate because they"re all drawing on the same resource: measures of g correlates things intelligence correlates with.
