Human Growth and Development / Unit 7 HGD 0929 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Spearman's g
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The idea
Spearman proposed general intelligence, g, a single ability underlying performance across tasks, plus specific abilities for particular tasks.
In practice
Binet and Simon noticing that children who did well on one test task tended to do well on others.
Where people slip
Binet's test was built for the French government to identify children who needed extra support in school.
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