PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.2: Louis Leon Thurstone, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Factor Analysis
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In the mid-1800s, he was considered to be the "eighth wonder of the world. " Scientific evidence for intelligence as a general ability dates back to the early 20th-century work by charles spearman, who began by developing techniques to calculate correlations among multiple measures of mental abilities. For there to be an overarching general ability called "intelligence," one would expect that tests of different types of abilities would all correlate with each other, forming only one factor. It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to measure fluid intelligence without tapping into people"s pre-existing knowledge and experience: the gf/gc distinction comes from examining how each type changes over the lifespan. In one study, people aged 20-89 years old were given a wide array of tasks, including the. It also takes creative intelligence to be a scientist because creative thinking is often required to conceive of good scientific hypotheses and develop ways of testing them.
