David Olson
Outline of Talk
Intelligence: Why Psychometric and Developmental Conceptions of Intelligence Cannot Be Integrated
One of the many common interests I shared with Robbie was that of trying to understand the relation between psychometric (a la Binet) and developmental (a la Piaget) conceptions of intelligence. Robbie remained hopeful that the two cold be integrated and recently completed a paper with Demetriou to that end. I am not so optimistic. While I will not draw on the overused notion of a 'paradigm shift' to explain the change, I will argue that the two traditions ask different questions, the first, "who is better", the second "What are they doing". The first provides a behavioral causal analysis, the second an intentional one.
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