PSYC10004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rote Learning, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Standard Deviation
14 Jun 2018
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2nd Aug ‘17
MBB2 Week 2; Lecture 5 Notes
Psychometric Approaches to Understanding Children’s Abilities
intelligence
- difficult to define
- long ago: seen as idea about inheritable intellectual capacity underpinning decisions &
interactions
- now: seen as having high levels of problem solving, reasoning & judgement
- can be described in 3 levels of analysis:
- consisting as one thing - must have sense of single thing differentiating intelligent ppl from
the rest
- single entity influencing all aspects of cognitive functioning: g (general intelligence)
- evidence: overall scores on intelligence test = ‘+ correlation’ w/ school grades & speed of
information processing
- consisting of a few things
- Cattell’s 2 types of knowledge
- crystallised intelligence: factual knowledge which builds up over lifetime
- fluid intelligence: ability to think on the spot by drawing inferences, understanding
- measured by IQ tests by object assembly
- 7 basic mental abilities (Thurstone)
- word fluency, verbal meaning, reasoning, spatial visualisation, numbering, rote memory,
perceptual speed
- consisting of many things
- intelligence as multiple processes
- Carroll’s three-stratum “theory of intelligence”
intelligence tests
- intelligence means different things @ different ages
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Document Summary
Long ago: seen as idea about inheritable intellectual capacity underpinning decisions & interactions. Now: seen as having high levels of problem solving, reasoning & judgement. Can be described in 3 levels of analysis: Consisting as one thing - must have sense of single thing differentiating intelligent ppl from the rest. Single entity influencing all aspects of cognitive functioning: g (general intelligence) Evidence: overall scores on intelligence test = + correlation" w/ school grades & speed of information processing. Crystallised intelligence: factual knowledge which builds up over lifetime. Fluid intelligence: ability to think on the spot by drawing inferences, understanding. Measured by iq tests by object assembly. Word fluency, verbal meaning, reasoning, spatial visualisation, numbering, rote memory, perceptual speed. Carroll"s three-stratum theory of intelligence intelligence tests. Intelligence means different things @ different ages. Binet & simon - test measuring intellectual development & concept of mental age.
