PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Factor Analysis
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When you start to compare between differences political controversy. Self-fulfilling prophecy: avoiding ideas about the differences will increase performance. Studied racial differences (physical/sexual prowess and intelligence found that there are clear differences between 3 races the 3 races follow in 2 continuums: intelligence: asian cauc. People think intelligence is related to the soul. Humans seem to be intelligent evidence of divine creation (can only be created, not evolved) (cid:1) Because the skills vary (i. e. there are many diff types of athletes. ) E. g. if jordon plays baseball he needs to acquire diff skills that were not (cid:1) needed in basketball (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) There are factors related to intelligence (studied using analytic (cid:1) approach) Originally found 7 factors of how people did on the test: some people do well on some components and not others. You can group questions to discover these components/facts. When a factor analysis was performed on his thurstone"s factors,
