PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Froe, Heritability, Mental Scale
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Adaptive: abilities are used flexibly to meet a person"s goals in particular situations. Involves a capacity for learning: people who are intelligent in particular areas learn new info and procedures more quickly and easily than people who are less intelligent in those domains. Involves use of prior knowledge to analyze and understand new conditions effectively. Reflects complex coordination of many distinct mental processes. Develops with age: specific mental processes and their orchestration become more efficient with use and maturation. Culture specific such that it can be defined differently among different societies, such as: Factor analysis: statistical procedure used to determine which of a number of factors or scores are closely related to each other and relatively independent of other groups of factors/scores. Spearman proposed the 1st theory of intelligence. Intelligence is composed of a general factor (g) and a number of specific factors (s) General factor (g): general mental energy or ability that"s involved in all cognitive tasks.
