What exactly is intelligence?
• Psychometric/Statistical Approach • Information Processing Approach • Piagetian Approach • Sternberg’s Triarchic Approach • Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Approach • Ceci’s Bioecological Approach Thorndike, Binet, Terman, and other pioneers in the early 20th Century devised intelligence tests based on verbal and mathematical aptitude. L. L. Thurstone was one of these pioneers who believed there was a general factor of intelligence, but thought it wasn’t important. In 1938 he postulated seven major primary abilities: • Verbal Comprehension: vocabulary, reading, comprehension, verbal analogies, etc. • Word fluency: the ability to quickly generate and manipulate a large number of words with specific characteristics, as in anagrams or rhyming tests • Number: the ability to quickly and accurately carry out mathematical operations • Space: spatial visualizations as well as ability to mentally transform spatial figures • Associative Memory: rote memory • Perceptual Speed: quickness in perc
