PSY371H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heritability, Discriminant Validity, Working Memory Training
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Psy371 practice test questions (section a) (warning: some answers might not be fully correct, please study this material with your notes: galton and binet were both influential players in the development of modern intelligence testing. Describe how their ideas about measuring intelligence differed: galton suggested that there is individual difference and can be systematically measured and compared. He believed iq is inherited, to demonstrate this idea, he was the first one to use twin studies. He believed sensory abilities were related to intelligence. Galton invented regression analysis and concept of correlation between items that tend to relate to each other: binet suggested we shouldn"t compare individual, there is no single intelligence in people and intelligence is highly affect by experience. What do factor loadings represent: factor analysis is used to determine how many dimensions are required to account for the variability between scores. It extracts factors and dimensions that are in common.
