PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Louis Leon Thurstone, Robert Sternberg, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
16 Nov 2017
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What is intelligence: piaget defined it as adaptive thinking or action , most definitions center around the ability to think abstractly or to solve problems efficiently , different theorists have different ideas about which attributes they call intelligence. Alfred binet"s singular component approach: binet and theodore simon produced the forerunner of our modern intelligence tests, were commissioned by the french government to construct a test that would identify. Dull children who might profit from remedial instruction: they devised a large battery of tasks measuring skills presumed to be necessary for classroom learning: attention, perception, memory, numerical reasoning, verbal comprehension. The contextual component: first, sternberg argues that what qualifies as intelligent behaviour will depend in large part on the context in which it is displayed. In daily life, however, people also perform more or less intelligently on familiar tasks: this second kind of experiential intelligence reflects automatization, or increasing efficiency of information processing with practice.
