PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Behavioural Genetics, Heredity, Heritability
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An individual"s ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt efecively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, and to overcome obstacles by taking thought. Capacity to: to learn, for transfer, for abstract thinking, for judgement, for comprehension. Spearman: iq = g + s (speciic abiliies) Thurstone: iq = g = 7 mental abiliies. Catel: iq = g = luid + crystallized. Gardner: iq = g + 8 other iqs. Sternberg: iq = g + 3 other iqs. General intelligence the g factor: g = intelligence. Speciic abiliies s factors: speciic abiliies include math etc. Seven primary mental abiliies: verbal comprehension, numerical ability, spaial relaions, perceptual speed, word luency, memory, reasoning. Structure of intellect: muliple abiliies 150, no need for g, operaions, content, products. Fluid reasoning, memory, speed of informaion processing: as we get older our luid declines. Crystallized ability to apply acquired knowledge/skills when problem solving.
