PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mental Age, Standard Deviation, Stress Management
27 Jun 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Overview: -what is intelligence, as of march 2012, intelligence involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience. How is intelligence measured: binet, modern tests, distribution of intelligence scores, correlates of intelligence scores. They are less dependent on having to go to school have to have general knowledge. Retarded : -above standard deviation 115 to 145: bright normal . Very superior gifted : -canada is 7 points higher than the us, -68% are in normal range within 1 standard deviation of the mean. Validity: doesn"t predict behaviors: if you have great iq test that is reliable, but doesn"t predict anything with intelligence-you are measuring something really well, but you don"t know what it is correlated with! Part 2: effects of nature and nurture on intelligence . : as long as intelligence is partly influenced by environment. When we are really young, affect of adoptive parents is bigger.
