PSYA02H3 Chapter 11: chapter 11

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

E. g. processing information received to solve problems. Theories of intelligence some intellectual abilities are completely independent from each other: person can be excellent at spatial reasoning but poor at solving verbal anologies. Spearman; a person"s score on a test depends on their specific ability on the particular test. 4 groups: provides clues about the nature of intelligence. Thurstone extracted seven factors: 1) verbal comprehension, 2) verbal fluency, 3) number, 4) spatial visualizion, 5) memory, 6) reasoning, 7) perceptual speed. Cattell found two major factors: 1) fluid intelligence (gf) Ability to see relations and patterns represents a potential ability to learn ad solve problems: 2) crystallized intelligence (gc) takss that require us to have acquired information. Accumulated life knowledge we use for tasks. What a person has accomplished using their fluid intelligence (what they learned) Mental processes that have become automatic (sternberg) 2 people, same experience, the one with the greater gf will develop the greatest gc.