PSYA02H3 Chapter 11: Chapter 11
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Intelligence - general term used to refer to a person"s ability to learn and remember information, to recognize concepts and their relations, and to apply information to their own behaviour in an adaptive way. Three dominant approaches to study of intelligence: Developmental approach studies way in which children learn to perceive, manipulate, and think about world (most influential psychologisst was swiss jean piaget) Information processing approach focuses on types of skills people use to think and to solve various types of problems. People vary in their abilities to learn and use words, to solve arithmetic problems, and to perceive and remember spacial information. Differential approaches assume that we can best investigate nature of intelligence by studying ways in which people differ on tests of such intellectual abilities. Charles spearman proposed that person"s performance on test of intellectual ability is determined by two factors:
