PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: The Possession, Job Performance, Compensatory Education
13 Mar 2013
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Piaget defined it as adaptive thinking or action. Psychometric approach: a theoretical perspective that portrays intelligence as a trait (or set of traits) on which individuals differ; psychometric theorists are responsible for the development of standardized intelligence tests. Mental age (ma): a measure of intellectual development that reflects the level of age- graded problems a child is able to solve. Simon-binnet test: large battery of tasks measuring skills that were presumed to be necessary for classroom learning: attention, perception, memory, numerical reasoning, verbal comprehension, etc. One attribute or many: perform large number of mental tasks and analyze performance using statistical procedure. Factor analysis: factor analysis: a statistical procedure for identifying clusters of tests or test items (called factors) that are highly correlated with one another and unrelated to other test items, each factor represents a distinct mental ability. Intellectual performance has two aspects: g: general ability and s: special abilities, each of which is measured by a particular test.
