LESSON 5 Flashcards
who said that intelligence is “to think abstractly”
Lewis Terman
who said that intelligence is “ability to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal
effectively with the environment”
David Weschler
who said that intelligence is “the ability to adapt to one’s surroundings”
Jean Piaget
TWO-FACTOR
THEORY
by Charles Spearman
- GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (g)
- SPECIFIC ABILITIES (s)
general mental ability that
influences performance on all
cognitive tasks
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (g)
abilities unique to particular
tasks
SPECIFIC ABILITIES (s)
PRIMARY
MENTAL
ABILITIES
by Louis Thurstone
- WORD FLUENCY
- VERBAL COMPREHENSION
- REASONING
- MEMORY
- PERCEPTUAL SPEED
- SPATIAL VISUALIZATION
- NUMBER
ability to think words rapidly
WORD FLUENCY
ability to understand and define
words
VERBAL COMPREHENSION
ability
to find rules and
conventions to justify and solve
issues
REASONING
Deductive
Inductive
REASONING
ability to recall and associate
previous learned items
MEMORY
ability to detect similarities and
differences between designs and
objects
PERCEPTUAL SPEED
ability to visualize and manipulate object in space
SPATIAL VISUALIZATION
ability to deal with numbers
rapidly and accurately
NUMBER
J.P. Guilford identified 150 factors
using factor analysis
STRUCTURE OF
INTELLECT
STRUCTURE OF
INTELLECT
- OPERATIONS
- CONTENT
- PRODUCTS
the ways we think
OPERATIONS
Cognition
OPERATIONS
Memory
OPERATIONS
Divergent production
OPERATIONS
Convergent production
OPERATIONS
Evaluation
OPERATIONS
what one’s thinks about
CONTENT