1. Intro to Psychology – Intelligence Testing

2.  L.L. Thurstone is a major opponent of Spearman’s theory (two-factor)  After testing people on 50 different ability tests, Thurstone concluded that there was no evidence for “general intelligence.”  Thurstone comes up with 7 “primary mental abilities”  He believed a persons intelligence needed to be measured in all 7 abilities and not just a measurement of one factor (g)

3. TheoryMain Ideas Verbal ComprehensionAbility to understand words, concepts, and ideas Numerical AbilityAbility to use numbers quickly to compute answers to problems Spatial RelationsAbility to visualize and manipulate patterns and forms in space Perceptual SpeedAbility to grasp perceptual details quickly and accurately and to determine similarities and differences between stimuli Word FluencyAbility to use words quickly and fluently in performing such tasks as rhyming, solving anagrams, and doing crossword puzzles MemoryAbility to recall information such as lists of words, mathematical formulas, and definitions Inductive ReasoningAbility to derive general rules and principles from presented information