Intelligence and Two Different Perspectives

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Psychology

 

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Quinton T

 

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April 7, 2011

 

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University

 

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A

 

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Two psychologists, Charles Spearman and Howard Gardner, have their own theories about determining what intelligence is and how to measure it. In the early 1900s, Charles Spearman (1863-1945) made an important observation that has influenced many later theories of intelligence: He noted that all tests of mental ability consisted of positive correlation, or the degree to which two variables are associated and vary together (Intelligence, 2006)...
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Spearman reasoned that there must be a common variable or factor producing these positive correlations. He developed a statistical method, called factor analysis, to show the underlying factor involved in the positive correlations. Based on this factor analysis, the two-factor theory of intelligence was discovered...
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