PSYC 2500 Lecture 8: Intelligence Testing - May 26 & 31, 2016
31 May 2016
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Thursday, may 26th and tuesday, may 31st, 2016. Chapter 8: intelligence and individual differences in cognition. Identify early key contributors: terman, woodrow, galton, binet, weschler, spearman, thurston, carroll. New theories of intelligence: gardner, goldman, sternberg. Understand how psychologists measure intelligence: binet, turman, weschler. Interpret intelligence scores: normal curve, mean, sd. Debates regarding approp test admin, culture, ses, etc. Terman: ability to carry on abstract thinking. Colvin: how 1 has learned or can learn to adjust himself to his environment. Binet: judgment, otherwise called good sense , practical sense , initiative , faculty of adapting one"s self to circumstances auto-critique. Weschler: aggregate or global capacity of individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, Very general mental capability that, among other things, involves ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, & learn from experience. Not merely book learning, narrow academic skills, or test-taking smarts.
