Memory, Thinking And Intelligence
...being Spearman’s Model of Intelligence, known as the general intelligence factor or g factor, which is the apex of all other intelligence. The second is Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, and he believes that there are seven forms of intelligences which he based on biological facts.
There are different test of our mental abilities that varies from a simple reaction time to more complex abstract reasoning, which are analyzed into components or factors. The highest level the g factor or general intelligence factor, also known as positive manifold (Spearman 1904) have precedence over all other intelligence and is the important factor in most tests. “The positive correlation between all cognitive test items is a given, an inexorable fact of nature” (Paik, n.d).
Spearman “administered different types of test, covering different types of cognitive abilities and he found that if a person did well in verbal abilities, that same person will do well on another test of another cognitive ability” (Paik, n.d) he named it positive manifold.
For Spearman’s reaction time and g is the correlation between reaction time and IQ. According to some psychologist IQ correlates highly to simple test. A theory based on observation links the g factor to neural processes which involves speed and efficiency.
An example of a simple reaction time “in which a light is turned on, a participant is asked to press a button as soon as he or she sees the light go on” this is where reaction time is measured (Paik, n.d). Processing information quickly relates to factor g; it can be measured from reaction time scores. This means that if a person with a faster neural reaction time, has a higher IQ, “neural processing speed determines the level of intelligence of the individual; this intelligence is one general intelligence, g” (Paik, n.d). The final understanding of g...
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