PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.2: Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Factor Analysis, Job Performance

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Kyle Danielson

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When we say someone is intelligent, we usually are implying they have a high level of gen cognitive ability. Began by developing techniques to calculate correlations among multiple measures abilities. Factor analysis: a statistical technique that examines correlations between variables clusters of related variables, or factors. Imagine that scores on tests of vocabulary, reading comprehension, and ve reasoning correlate highly together; these would form a language ability fac. For there to be an overarching general ability called intelligence, one would expec tests of different types of abilities would all correlate with each other, forming only. General intelligence factor (also called g"): represented a person"s mental energy" reflecti belief that some people"s brains are more powerful. Correlation between g and high school and university grade is strong. It predicts how years a person will stay in school. Also predicts unrelated phenomena like how long likely to live, how quickly people make judgements, self-control etc.