PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Content Validity, Motivation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

There are many de nitions for intelligence, as it is so complex. This is because there is no de nitive agreement on one speci c de nition for what intelligence is. However, there are agreements on speci c components that make up intelligence, including: Ability to adapt and adjust to the environment. Ability to learn from experience: one or several intelligences, the factor-analysis approach: sophisticated statistical technique used by researchers in order to identify the factors that may underly clusters of test items. Spearman: admitted that human beings have different abilities, labelled s , which do not represent multiple intelligences. Believed there was one shared factor in common, labelled g (general intelligence) which is one single ability that underlies all other human abilities. Thurstone: opposed to the idea of g , believed that several multiple intelligences exist that are distinct, independent and separate from each other *textbook: contemporary approaches.