PSY 1102 Study Guide - David Suzuki, Creativity, Spatial Ability

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

The dog chaser can recognize over 1000 words. 4 major sections covered for this chapter: what is intelligence, definition of intelligence: There is no agreement among researchers for a single definition of intelligence. But they do agree that certain characteristics are part of intelligence. In order for researchers to answer this questions, some researchers do factor analysis to do so. Factor analysis: sophisticated statistical technique that is used in order to identify the factors that may underlay clusters of test items. Spearman used factor analysis to answer this question. Based on his research and observations, he concluded; while we have different abilities-they are not multiple intelligences. They all have one factor in common that cuts through them, which is general intelligence. Intelligence is one single ability that underlies all the abilities. "g "is general intelligence and "s "is specific abilities. Thurstone did not believe we have single intelligence (g) , but multiple intelligences that are distinct and separate entities.