Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Testees, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Criterion Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

Document Summary

Intelligence: the ability to acquire knowledge, think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Fell through when he tried to measure the nervous system. Rate of gaining mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is fairly constant over time. How they should do at a certain age. But now its based of comparison with peers. Because 20y/o would be much more intelligence than an 80y/o at solving problems. Army alpha and beta tests for american soldiers (verbal) Wechsler developed tests for verbal and non verbal. Tries to identify and measure the abilities that underlie individual differences in performance. All tasks are related so there should be one thing g factors that controls it all. Skills based on which cluster they are closest too. More feasible to enhance specific mental skills than to raise general intelligence. Fluid: ability to deal with new situations, with no previous knowledge. We change from fluid to crystallized throughout our lifespan.