PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Intelligence Quotient, Heritability, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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Intelligence: the general term used to refer to a person"s ability to learn and remember information, to recognize concepts and their relations and to apply the information to their own behaviour in an adaptive way. Differential approach: an approach to the study of intelligence that involves the creation of tests that identifies and measure individual differences in people"s knowledge and abilities to solve problems. Developmental approach: an approach to the study of intelligence based on the way children learn to perceive, manipulate, and think about the world. Information processing approach: an approach to the study of intelligence that focuses on the types of skills people use to think and to solve problems. Client: eduction of correlates: the ability to apply a rule inferred from one case to a similar case (eduction is the process of bringing out or figuring out from given facts) S factor (specific): according to spearman, a factor of intelligence that is specific to a particular task.
