PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heritability, Neuropsychology, Savant Syndrome
3 Mar 2016
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Hypothetical construct: something that we assume but it may or may not exist we can"t see it (iq, time) A method of assessing an individual"s mental aptitudes and comparing them to those of others, using numerical scores. Iq = ma/cax100 mental age divided by chronological age. Hired by the french government to help find a way to asses children. They developed tests to identify those that may be at risk. They would work with their own children with several tests-they would develop them so that they would be used for any age. If you were six and could perform tasks that a six year old should do then they have a mental age of six, etc. Binet-simon (two researchers) certain number and then becomes useless) (only works up to a. Used to be done years ago in school systems. Used on thousands of people so that the average is 100.
