PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Factor Analysis, Mental Age, Cultural Bias
10 Dec 2018
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Developmental psychology chapter 10 notes intelligence: measuring. Later multicomponent theories of intelligence: spearman"s and thurstone"s early work suggested that there must be a small number of basic abilities that make up what we call intelligence . Injury to a particular area of the brain usually influences only one ability, leaving other unaffected. Right hemisphere, partial, posterior, occipital lobes: engineer, sculptor, cartographer. Left partial lobes and adjacent temporal and occipital association areas left hemisphere for verbal naming right hemisphere for spatial organization frontal system for planning and goal setting. Right anterior temporal and frontal lobes: mathematician. Frontal lobes as integrating station between internal and external states and people: therapist, public relations specialist, salesperson. Sensitivity to the meaning and sounds of words, to structure of language, and to many ways" language can be used. Ability to perceive visual-spatial relationships accurately, to transform these perceptions, and to recreate aspects of visual experience in the absence of the pertinent stimuli.
