PSYCH 2AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Psychological Testing, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Habituation
2 Nov 2016
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Psychometrician"s: psychologists who specialize in measuring psychological characteristics such as intelligence and personality. Charles spearman: reported ndings supporting idea that general factor for intelligence (g) is responsible for performance on all mental tests. Believes intelligence is broad and general, believe some people are smart regardless of the situation. Other researchers found that intelligence consists of distinct abilities. Thurstone; analyzed performance on wide range of tasks and identi ed 7 distinct patterns: perceptual speed, word comprehension, word uency, space, number, memory, induction emphasized that speci c factors more useful in assessing and understanding intellectual ability. Con ict of ndings led to hierarchal theories of intelligence with both general and speci c components combined. Fluid intelligence: ability to perceive relations among stimuli. Bottom: abilities in middle further divided into skills; most speci c level. Crystallized intelligence: compromises a persons culturally in uenced accumulated knowledge and skills, understanding printed language, comprehending language, and knowing vocabulary.
