Psychometric Approach Theories
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- Created on: 18-12-13 09:41
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- Psychometric Theories
- Spearman
- Noticed people who did well on mental ability tests did well on others
- two kinds of factors
- General Abilities
- Specific abilities
- related to each particular test and is used in combination with the general factors
- Cattell
- Created the multi-factor theory
- intellectual abilities can be seen as heirarchal
- first with 'G' then down
- Added to Spearman's 2
- Fluid
- solving abilities
- Crystalized
- vocabulary and general knowledge
- Fluid
- Thrustone
- disagrees with Spearman
- There are 7 factors
- Verbal comprehenstion
- Knowledge of vocab and reading
- Verbal Fluency
- Writing and producing words
- Number
- Arithmetic side
- Spacial Visualisation
- The manipulation of objects
- Inductive Reasoning
- Completing number series
- Memory
- Face and name recall
- Perceptual speech
- Rapid proofreading
- Verbal comprehenstion
- Spearman
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