PSYC 100B Chapter 10: Intelligence (pre-)review Midterm1
1 Feb 2019
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The mental potential to learn from experience, solve problems and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. *important: smart people might just smart in one specific area. Human has one general intelligence that is called factor g , heart of all our intelligent behaviour. Those who score high in one area, such as verbal intelligence, typically score higher than average in other areas. His work is done by factor analysis: a statistical procedure that connect related items. By a single intelligence score was controversial in spearman"s day, and so it remains. Human has too many abilities, cannot conclude in one specific ability. Word fluency, verbal comprehension, spatial ability, perceptual speed, numerical ability, inductive reasoning, and memory. Those who excelled in one of the seven clusters generally scored well on the others. There was still some evidence for g factor. At some point, he supports g factor.
