CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -British psychologist Charles Spearman believed intelligence consisted of one general factor, called g, which could be measured and compared among individuals. Spearman focused on the commonalities among various intellectual abilities and deemphasized what made each unique.

Detailed explanation-2: -Illustration of Spearman’s two-factor intelligence theory. Each specific ability ‘s” share the general factor “g”. For example, an individual who is an IIT graduate could also be a good writer and end up being an author, an editor or a columnist. An astronaut could also have specific singing abilities.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence, intelligence results from information processing components being applied to experience for the purposes of adaptation to, shaping of, and selection of environments.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Edward Spearman (September 10, 1863-September 7, 1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. He also did seminal work on human intelligence, including the discovery of the g factor.