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Models of Intelligence
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Models of Intelligence
Psychometric
- Factor Analysis
- Measurement
- Intelligence Tests
- Individual differences in intelligence
Biological
- Studying the brain
- Case Studies
- Neuroimaging
- Intelligence and brain structure
- Damaged frontal lobe can have a decline on intellectual functioning
- Neuroimaging
- Correlation between IQ and brain size (grey matter)
- Heredity and learning difficult skills impacts brain size
- More Neuroimaging
- Measuring brain activity while participants complete an intelligence test
- More intelligent ppl use their brains efficiently and use less energy to solve problems
- Studying the brain
Contextual
- Intelligence is only relevant to the culture it is measured by
- Takes into account cleverness and the effects of culture on child
- Does not take into account that some individuals are better at responding to intellectual challenges than others