PSYC 406 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Factor Analysis, Inductive Reasoning, Laity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 406
• Professor: David Vachon

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Real definition one that seeks to tell us the true nature of the thing being defined. Spearman a genera ability that involves mainly the education of relations and correlates. Binet and simon the ability to judge well, understand well, reason well. Thorndike the power of good responses from the point of view of truth or fact. Weschler the aggregate r global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with the environment. Two points everyone seem to agree on: the capacity to learn from experience, the capacity to adapt to one"s environment. Learning and adaptation as core functions of intelligence. If a layperson can agree to a meaning, it is somewhat what is real . Most intelligence components were found using factor analysis. Factor analysis summarizes interrelationships among a large number of variables in a concise and accurate manner as an in conceptualization. Galton and sensory keenness first theory of intelligence.