Question

Describe the psychrometric and cognitive process approavhes to intelligence

Answer 1

The major paradigms have been those of psychological measurement (often called psychometrics); cognitivepsychology, which concerns itself with the mental processes by which the mind functions; the merger ofcognitive psychology with contextualism (the interaction of the environment and processes of the mind)

Answer 2

Explanation:

1. psychometric approach focuses on structure of intelligence, whereas information processing approach emphasize studying cognitive functions underlying intelligence behaviour

2. psychometric approach expresses individual's performance in terms of single index of abilities, whereas information processing approach describes the processes people use in intellectual reasoning and problem solving.