PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Lewis Terman, Mental Age
9 Dec 2014
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Overview: what is intelligence, definition varied as time passed, march 2012: ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not nearly book learning a narrow academic skill or test-taking smarts. It reflects a broader deeper understanding of comprehending our surroundings for catching on and figuring out what to do. Not a measure of education, but a measure of what one would do with education: there are 2 aspects: Crystallized intelligence: store of skills and knowledge about the nature of the world, picked up over time. Ability to perceive relations among stimuli and solve novel problems, not involving store of concrete knowledge: how intelligence is measured, previously measured by size of head/brain. False: binet test and modern tests, distribution of intelligence scores, correlates of intelligence scores, prediction of social well-being. Psychometric theories: psychometricians psychologists that measure psychological characteristics like intelligence and personality.
