PSYC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Numerical Analysis, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Working Memory
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Ability to use cognitive skills to learn knowledge, solve problems, and obtain goals. Psychometric instruments assess or reveal psychological attributes via personality and intelligence. Binet and simon 1908, test to identify children which may be intellectually impaired using tasks which a child at a certain age may get (ma ) mental age. Also cognitive development slow with age hence iq would get worse as you get older, however this was fixed by wechsler by dispensing ma and ca so that a person was compared to people in relative age. Favours western learning and favours white middle class learning. Groups of characteristics and abilities tested well on. G- factor = general intelligence, well in school, general knowledge, and. S-factor= specific intelligence, abilities unique in certain areas. vocabulary. Word fluency, comprehension, numerical computation, spatial skills, associative memory, reasoning and perceptual speed. Strongest when younger, peaks around 10 years old. Store of knowledge, vocabulary, general knowledge, with same characteristics as thurstone.
