PSYA02H3 : Ch.11 Notes.doc

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Iq scores: single score does not mean intelligence is single, general characteristic. Some intellectual abilities are completely independent of one another. Spearman"s two factor theory proposed that a person"s performance on test of intellectual ability is determined by. Spearman concluded that general factor (g) accounted fro moderate correlations among different tests of ability. Person"s score on particular test depends on 2 things: person"s specific ability (s) on a particular test and his/her level of g factor (general reasoning ability) Factor loadings like correlation coefficients in that they express degree to which particular test is related to particular factor. Thurstone: performed factor analysis on college students and extracted 7 factors: verbal comprehension, verbal fluency, number, spatial visualization, memory, reasoning, perceptual speed. Cattell: fluid intelligence (gf) culture-free tasks measure ability to see patterns in repeating series of items; closely related to person"s native capacity for intellectual performance; potential ability to learn and solve problems casual learning.

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