FRHD 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Twin, Intelligence Quotient, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Robyn Pitman

Document Summary

Took items on standardized intelligence tests and looked at relationships. Test items measuring different abilities are all related. -> more influenced from the brain than environmental influences. -> skills that depend on knowledge we have accumulated or experiences. -> shaped primarily by our environment (vocabulary, general information and math problems. A more recent and comprehensive account of intelligence. -> broad factors are made up of more specific factors or narrow abilities/skills. From child development, studies of brain damaged and exceptional individuals. Proposed that we have intelligences in 9 different areas. Our abilities in these different areas are distinct. -> ability to use words to understand news ideas. -> use language to convey ideas to others (example poet, author) -> imagine the appearance of an object before and after its made (engineer, sculptor) -> understand relations among objects, actions, ideas, and mathematical operations (mathematicians, scientists) -> understanding and producing sounds varying in pitch, rhythm, and emotional tone (musician, composer)