PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intelligence Quotient, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Mental Age
7 Sep 2015
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Is the capacity to understand the world, your ability to think rationally: use the resource that you have in order to solve the problems. Two ways of thinking about intelligence: fluid intelligence. How quickly, efficiently to process information, perceive information. The accumulation of information that you get through from experience, Next time knows what to do with it. Measuring intellectual power: the first iq tests, alfred binet and theodore simon (1905) Identify children who might have difficulty in school. Very simple question he thought kids at that age should be: mental age: age of children on average who achieve. That score, eg. a 4 years old who scores a 10. 6 years old with score 10 on same 10 4 years old have. The mental age of 6 years old: chronological age: essential their age, 4 years old is 4. In order to calculate your iq: mental age/chronological*100. 2/3rd of children are between 85 and 115.
