PSYC 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Memory Span, Block Design
28 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Gall: believes there is no such thing as general intelligence. Each mental organ has its own particular form of intelligence within a particular domain. View of intelligence only makes sense; consider people we know who are very smart in some ways and strike us as curiously inept in other regards. People who are very god in one subject at school tend to be very good in many other subjects as well. Human intelligence is thought of as reflecting a uniform, horizontal faculty that can be measured reliably. Typical intelligence test is designed to assess certain mental abilities that psychologists know how to measure with some accuracy, and not abilities which are much harder to empirically capture. Not so good at measuring highly valued abilities like creativity or wisdom, so everything about intelligence based on standardized tests. Generally limited to evidence that involves tasks of a particular kind. Similarities: indicate what is common about two words.
