PSY312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Factor Analysis, Information Processing
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Something that is measured, something that you can ask question about and get the answer. The first successful intelligence test, constructed by french psychologist alfred binet and his colleague theodore simon in 1905. Binet created a way for accessing children"s performance in school to identify children with difficulties. He created an intelligence test which measures facts and knowledge (individual"s understanding of math, vocab, problem solving) , more than just reaction time and simple behaviour. An objective method for assigning pupils to special classes based on mental ability. In 1916, stanford university adapted it for english-speaking schoolchildren- stanford-binet. Performance on almost all intellectual tasks is positively correlated, leading to the hypothesis that each individual possesses a certain amount of g (general intelligence),the part of intelligence common to all intellectual tasks. Factor analysis: finding relationships among bunches of variables. Different types of intelligence measurement at that time were all related to each other.
