PSYC10004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Language Production, Block Design, Standard Deviation
28 Jun 2018
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LECTURE 5&6 – PSYCHOMETRIC APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN’S ABILITIES
(PART 1)
WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? – difficult to define
Key components:
oProblem-solving, reasoning, judgement
Can be described at three levels of analysis:
oConsist of one thing- general intelligence
oConsisting of a few things
oConsisting of many things
INTELLIGENCE AS A SINGLE TRAIT
Each of us possess a certain amount of “g” influence intellectual skills
Support: positive correlation between information processing with grades/test performance
INTELLIGENCE AS A FEW BASIC ABILITIES
Crystallised knowledge – factual knowledge about the world, word meanings, arithmetic, etc.
oE.g. masterminds, learning times tables
Fluid knowledge – ability to think on the spot draw inference, see relationships taking other
things into consideration understanding relations between concepts not previously
encountered
oE.g. Maths problems
Measured by a variety of different tests
Thurstone – 7 primary mental abilities
oLots of different things measuring one thing
oResults would be more similar than those of e.g. Rote memory
Word fluency
Verbal meaning
Reasoning
Spatial visualisation
Numbering
Rote memory
Perceptual speed
Support for Thurstone’s view:
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Document Summary
Lecture 5&6 psychometric approaches to understanding children"s abilities (part 1) Can be described at three levels of analysis: consist of one thing- general intelligence, consisting of a few things, consisting of many things. Each of us possess a certain amount of g influence intellectual skills. Support: positive correlation between information processing with grades/test performance. Crystallised knowledge factual knowledge about the world, word meanings, arithmetic, etc: e. g. masterminds, learning times tables. Fluid knowledge ability to think on the spot draw inference, see relationships taking other things into consideration understanding relations between concepts not previously encountered: e. g. Measured by a variety of different tests. Thurstone 7 primary mental abilities: lots of different things measuring one thing, results would be more similar than those of e. g. rote memory. Support for thurstone"s view: performance on various tests of a single ability tend to be more similar than performance on tests that are dissimilar.
