PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Achievement Test, David Wechsler
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Spear(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s ge(cid:374)eral i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)(cid:272)e (g: humans have one general intelligence that is at the heart of everything a person does, mental abilities are like physical abilities. Intelligence involves distinct abilities, which correlate enough to define a small general intelligence factor: gardner and sternberg discount this theory and propose several different kinds of intelligence. Fifty-six different tests mathematically identified seven clusters of primary mental abilities: researchers found scoring well on one cluster generally matched high scores on the others, providing some evidence of g. Our intelligence may be broken down into 7 factors: word fluency, verbal comprehension, partial ability, perceptual speed, numerical ability, memory. Kanazawa (2010: general intelligence scores do correlate with ability to solve novel problems but not with individual skills in evolutionarily familiar situations. Analytical intelligence (school smarts: traditional academic problem solving) Creative intelligence (trailblazing smarts: ability to generate novel ideas) Practical intelligence (street smarts: skill at handling everyday tasks) Intelligence consists of multiple abilities that come in different packages.
