01:830:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Raymond Cattell, Ice Crystals, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dickson

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One possibility is working memory (intellectual task ability to shift attention; training. Another possibility is speed of processing information (processing information quickly. S is specific intellectual ability for a particular task. Intelligence consists of general ability plus an unknown number of specific abilities, such as mechanical, musical, arithmetical, logical, and spatial abilities. Spearman called his theory a monarchic theory of intelligence because it included a dominant ability, or monarch (g), that ruled over the lesser abilities. The simplest interpretation is that all the tasks measure a single underlying ability task do not increase other aspects of intelligence) makes it possible to complete more complicated tasks) Measurements of sprinting, high jumping, and long jumping correlate with one another because they all depend on the same leg muscles. Similarly, the g factor that emerges in iq testing could reflect single ability. Several types of intelligence correlate because they grow in the same ways.