PSYC37H3 Chapter 9: Chapter 9
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Chapter 9: theories of intelligence and the binet scales. alfred binet, one of the original authors of the test that bears his name, defined intelligence as. The tendency to take and maintain a definite direction; the capacity to make adaptations for the purpose of attaining a desired end, and the power of autocriticism . spearman, defined intelligence as the ability to educe either relations or correlates. Taylor identified three independent research traditions that have been employed to study the nature of human intelligence: the psychometric, the information-processing, and the cognitive approaches. The psychometric approach examines the elemental structure of a test. Following the psychometric approach, we examine the properties of a test through and evaluation of its correlates and underlying dimensions. In the information-processing approach, we examine the processes that underlie how we learn and solve problems. The cognitive tradition focuses on how humans adapt to real-world demands.
