PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Prenatal Development, Disabilities Affecting Intellectual Abilities, Deductive Reasoning
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Psychologists have devised an intelligence score that yields single number called the iq score (doesn"t show that intelligence is a single, general characteristic). There are three theories of intelligence: 1) a two factor theory, 2) an information processing theory, 3) a neuropsychological theory: spearman"s two factor theory. Factor analysis provides clues about the nature of intelligence but it cannot provide a theory of intelligence. Represents a potential ability to learn and solve problems. Supplies the na ve ability: crystallized intelligence (gc)- the tasks that require people to have acquired information from their culture, such vocabulary and the kind of information learned in schools. What a person has accomplished through the use of his or her fluid intelligence (what he or she has learned) Robert sternberg- the degree of success that people achieve in life is strongly affected by the extent to which they effectively analyze and manage their unique combinations of strengths and weaknesses (used by cognitive psychologists)
