PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Heritability, Cerebral Palsy, Dustin Hoffman
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Intelligence as we know is important in our society. It is a mental skill but the question becomes whether it is a general thing or if there are many kind of intelligence. There are many intelligent people in the world. Mental tasks can be thought of as sports. In the sense that there are many and while some are similar and require similar skills as others, there still exist a few that are totally different. If someone is good a one they may also be good at another but not necessarily all of them, kind of like having different types of intelligences. Spearman in 1927 was the first psychologist to theorize about human intelligence. He separated intelligence into the g factor, which represented general cognitive abilities and the s factor which signified specific. Method used to further study the underlying structure of intelligence.