PSYC 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Twin, Traumatic Brain Injury

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 406
• Professor: David Vachon

Document Summary

American questions, bias in differences in culture: questions can skew performance results, who administers test can skew performance results, self-fulfilling concern = stereotype threat. Specific factors: latent and observed variables, hierarchical structure, disagreements in facto structure across models, general vs. Specific factors: spearman: intelligence consists of one general factor (g- factor) plus a large number of specific factors, this is common in psychology, e. g. , cognition, general factor: intelligence, specific factors: verbal, spatial, processing. Speed, memory: e. g. , personality, general factor: neuroticism, specific factors: anxiety, anger, sadness, self- )llustration: an illustration of spearman"s two-factor: table, a venn diagram is one way of showing the general factor of intelligence theory. Each small oval is a hypothetical mental test. Illustration: latent and observed variables, circles = unobserved (latent) variables, squares = observed variables, question here is how much does g explain the overlap between constructs (the purple parts of the circles, verbal ability/ musical ability, 3 illustrations.