PSYC 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Stick Figure
20 Apr 2016
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Chapter 4: verbal, spatial, and fluid abilities: gc, gv, and gf. Reviews studies that have tried to identify some of the processes or operations measured by tests of verbal or crystallized intelligence (gc), and spatial intelligence (gv). Attempts to understand fluid intelligence or reasoning (gf). Just like how general intelligence isn"t composed of just one process, there"s no reason to believe that these 3 second-stratum factors correspond to a single psychological faculty. Verbal, spatial and fluid abilities are not unitary, each depends on many partially distinct cognitive operations or processes. Also the processes that emerge from these three abilities, do they in part provide an explanation of the general factor (g). Matrices(gf) did differently when asked to memorize new nonsense names(ex: tikel, pemon). Efficient to show that they are measuring at least partially different things. Test is really sensitive to damage to frontal cortex (locus of.
