Discuss Spearman's Two-factor theory of intelligence.

Charles Spearman, an English psychologist and the originator of factor analysis was the first to claim that intelligence consists of general ... Home About Contact RecentsinBeach Home AssignmentQuestion BachelorDegree _BA _BAG _BSCG _BAHIH _BAPAH _BAPSH _BAEGH _BAHDH _BASOH _BCOMG MastersDegree _MEC _MEG _MHD _MHI _MPA _MPS _MSO HomeMAPCSolvedAssignmentDiscussSpearman’sTwo-factortheoryofintelligence. DiscussSpearman’sTwo-factortheoryofintelligence. IGNOUSERVICE August01,2021 Spearman’sTwo-factortheoryofintelligence:CharlesSpearman,anEnglishpsychologistandtheoriginatoroffactoranalysiswasthefirsttoclaimthatintelligenceconsistsofgeneral‘g’factorandspecific‘s’factors.Histheoryisknownas‘TwoFactorTheory’.Oneofhismajorcontributionstothehistoryofpsychologyisthedevelopmentanduseof‘factoranalysis’.Heusedthetechniquesoffactoranalysisandcorelationalanalysistofindoutthe‘g’and‘s’factor. Factoranalysisinvolvesfindingoutthecorrelationofrelatedvariables,andthengroupingthevariablestoformclustersandderivetheunderlyingfactors.Thusalargernumberofvariablesarereducedtoalessernumberoffactors.Inhisbook,‘TheAbilitiesofMan’,Spearmanelaboratedthatallintellectualactivitiesshareasinglecommonfactorthatrunsthroughalltheactivitiesapersonperformsduringhislife.Spearmancalledthisgeneralfactoras‘mentalenergy’whichisdeterminedinnately.Apersoncannotbetrainedtohaveahigher‘g’factor.Itisapartofwhotheyare.Peoplepossessgeneralintelligenceor‘g’invaryingdegrees.Onthebasisofthisgeneralintelligence,wedescribeapersonaseitherintelligentordull.This‘g’isthemajordeterminantofone’sscoreinanyintelligencetest.Inadditiontothisgeneralor‘g’factor,herecognisedthespecificfactors,eachcalled‘s’,whicharespecifictodifferentabilities.Forexample,testofarithmetic,spatialrelationships,verbalfluency,eachofthesespecificintelligencemeasureaseparate‘s’.  Anindividual’sintelligencescorereflectstheamountof‘g’plusthemagnitudeofvarious‘s’factorspossessedbytheindividual.Forexample,one’sperformanceinspatialintelligencetestwouldbeafunctionofaperson’sgeneralintelligence(g)andhisspatialability(s).Spearmanstatisticallyanalysedtheinterrelationamongvariousscoresobtainedbydifferentindividualsonvarioustests.Apositivecorrelationbetweenanytwotestormentalfunctionimpliesafactorcommontobothor‘g’andtwospecificfactors‘s’.Letusassumethat,thetwotestsareM(mechanical)andN(numerical),thecommonfactorinthesetestsis‘g’andthespecificfactorsaresMandsN.Similarly,letV(verbal)andS(spatial)betwoothertestswith‘g’asthecommonfactorandsVandsSarethespecificfactorsasshowninFigure4aFbelow(IntheFigure4aF,grefersto‘generalability’andsrefersto‘Specificabilities’).Spearman’stheorystatesthattheobjectiveofpsychologicaltestsshouldbetomeasureindividual’s‘g’asitrunsthroughalltheabilitiesandpredictsindividual’sperformance.Individualsdifferonthebasisof‘g’theypossess. Tags: MAPCSolvedAssignment Facebook Twitter Newer Older Youmayliketheseposts PostaComment 0 Comments SocialPlugin AdsbyEonads Copyright(c)2020IGNOUSERVICEAllRightReseved CraftedwithbyTemplatesYard|DistributedByBloggerTemplates