PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Predictive Validity
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100s of deiniions, researchers are not in agreement as to what the deiniion is. Components that they agree on: think raionally, solve problems, learn from experiences, adapt and adjust to environment. In order to answer the quesions, researchers use factor-analysis (f. a) (a sophisicated staisical technique) Allows researchers to idenify common factors that may underlie clusters of test items. Spearman: one of the co-creators of factor-analysis, humans have diferent abiliies. They have one thing in common general intelligence (underlies all abiliies we have) He called abiliies s as speciic and general intelligence g . Thurstone: there is no g , we have muliple intelligences that are disinct and independent. Several listed in the book: modern researchers found evidence of g in his research. Muliple intelligences (independent: math genius but social klutz. Logic: people with brain damage lose some abiliies but retain some. Evidence that they"re independent: savants: extraordinary humans but in mental abiliies they are below average.