PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Factor Analysis, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Grey Matter

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

Intelligence is a concept and not a thing. Yet a tendency remained for high scorers in one cluster to score high in other clusters. Studies indicate that g scores are most predictive in novel situations and do not much correlate with skills in evolutionarily familiar situations. Several distinct abilities tend to cluster together and correlate enough to define a general intelligence factor. Satoshi kanazawa argues that general intelligence evolved as a form of intelligence that helps people solve novel problems. Eg. how to stop a fire from spreading. Gardner views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in different packages. savant syndrome: a condition in which a person otherwise limited mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as computation or drawing. Thus gardner argues that we do not have an intelligence but rather multiple intelligences, including the verbal and mathematical aptitudes asserted by standard tests. Robert stenberg agrees that there is more to success than traditional intelligence and with.