Historical Roots of Intelligence Flashcards

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Frances Galton

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Believed people were born with different levels of intelligence. Tried to raise the “intellectual pool” by proposing a eugenics program to curtail the breeding of the “feebleminded”

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Charles Spearman

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Developed factor analysis and correlation. Accepted an equality of intellectual ability. Believed everyone has a level of general intelligence (g) and then they have specific intelligences that make them unique (s). Correlations between tests suggest that g exists.

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Louis Thurstone

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Seven primary mental abilities (verbal fluency, verbal comprehension, numerical reasoning, spatial reasoning, memory, perceptual speed and inductive reasoning).

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Phillip Vernon

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Multi-level hierarchy of intelligences. g is at the top, with major factors beneath (verbal-educational and spatial-mechanical-practical). At the bottom are minor group factors such as verbal reasoning, numeracy, logic and attention (v:ed) and spatial/mechanical reasoning, social skills and psychomotor coordination (s:m:p).

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Raymond Cattell

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Fluid and crystallised intelligence. Below these are three group factors (general speediness, general visualisation and general fluency).

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