PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Eleanor Rosch, Prenatal Development, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

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

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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. Any definition of intelligence depends on cultural judgements. Differential approach: involves the creation of tests that identify and measure individual differences in people"s knowledge and ability to solve problems. Developmental approach: based on the way children learn to perceive, manipulate, and think about the world. Information processing approach: focuses on types of skills people use to think and to solve problems. Charles spearman proposed person"s performance on a test determined by two factors, g & s. G factor factor of intelligence common to all intellectual tasks (i. e. apprehension of experience, eduction of relations, and eduction of correlates) S factor factor of intelligence specific to a particular task. Solving analogies requires all three g factor abilities.