PSYCH 350 Chapter Notes -Thermal Power Stations In Russia And Soviet Union, Standard Deviation, James Mckeen Cattell
10 Mar 2013
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Debate over whether or not it is a unitary phenomenon or whether it consists of various separate skills and abilities. First view: an intelligent individual has a global ability to reason and acquire knowledge that manifests itself in ways such as memorizing a long poem or solving a maze. It is a general characteristic that shows up in the multiple and varied observable behaviors and activities of any one person. Second view: an intelligent individual may possess specific talents in some areas but not in others and may be able to compose a sonata but be unable to solve a verbal reasoning problem. Various components of intelligence are seen as essentially independent and each individual may have areas of strength and weakness. Psychometric tradition is the earliest theory of intelligence stating the product approach, quantifying individual differences in test scores to establish a rank order of capabilities among the participants tested.
