PSYC 2500H Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Mental Scale, Intellectual Disability, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
29 Mar 2017
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Psychometric approach (intelligence is a trait (or set of) on which ppl differ)(dev. Tasks measuring skills thought to be necessary for class learning (attention, memory, etc. That reflects level of age-graded problems a child is able to solve) G = general mental ability (ability to understand relations) S = special ability (ability that are specific to a particular test) 7 primary mental abilities (spatial ability, perceptual speed, numeric reasoning, verbal meaning, word fluency, memory, inductive reasoning) the 7 abilities make up spearmans idea of g. 180 basic mental abilities, broken into 3 areas: 5 intellectual content, 6 mental operations, 6 intellectual products primary mental abilities can be reduced to 2 major dimensions: fluid intelligence (ability to perceive relationships and solve relational probs. That aren"t taught or free of cultural influence: crystalized intelligence (ability to understand relations or solve problems that depend on knowledge from school or other cultural inflences)
