T1:Lecture 8 Flashcards
What is the correlation coefficient represented by?
r
What does r represent?
Magnitude of the relation between 2 variables
What would the variables show in a positive correlation?
Both increase
What would the variables show in a negative correlation?
One increases, whilst other decreases
What is the g factor?
General factor characterised by a single underlying factor. Smarts on performance of all subsets
What is the s factor?
Specific to a type of test
What are the two forms of g?
- Fluid Intelligence
2. Crystallised Intelligence
What is fluid intelligence?
Ability to:
- Learn
- Perceive relationships
- Deal with new problems
What is Crystallised Intelligence?
Acquired knowledge from a culture e.g. vocab size
Age in relation to ‘g’ (FI/CI)
FI: stops increasing and begins to decline after adolecense
CI: increases with age
What is Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory?
That people are intelligent in day to day lives by:
- seeking to achieve goals
- use strengths to minimise effect of weakness
- adapt to environment through: creative, analytical, practical, wisdom based skills
- Theory of Sternberg: Analytic Intelligence
- What’s typically measured in intelligence testing
- Answer is in the presented information
- Asseses the value of an idea
- Theory of Sternberg: Creative Intelligence
Generate ideas
- Theory of Sternberg: Practical Intelligence
- Carry out an idea
- Implicit
- ‘Street Smart’
What is Gardener’s Theory?
-Theory of multiple intelligences, including untraditional skills e.g. spatial, musical, intra/interpersonal
