PSYCH 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.1: Louis Leon Thurstone, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Factor Analysis
26 Nov 2017
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Psychometric approach: basis for intelligence tests available for assessing children"s mental abilities. Product oriented, concerned with outcomes and results. Intelligence consists of verbal ability, practical problem solving and social competence. Complex combination of attributes with little consensus among experts. Binet and simon created the first successful intelligence test. Assessed intelligence by tapping into complex mental activities involved in intelligent behavior such as memory and reasoning. Test of general ability including verbal and nonverbal items, each requiring thought and judgement. First to associate items of increasing difficulty with chronological age. Estimate how much a child was behind or ahead of agemates in intellectual development. Terman at stanford adapted the test to be used with english speaking children. Has since changed and no longer provides a single holistic measure. Factor analysis: correlational procedure which identifies sets of test items that cluster together. Test takers who do well on one item in a cluster tend to do well on others.
