PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: David Wechsler, Neural Adaptation, Ratio Test

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

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Identify some of the controversies surrounding intelligence testing. How we make judgments and sometimes err in our judgments. What intelligence is and if it can be understood as a single trait or as a cluster of related traits. Differential approach psychology approach devoted to tests and measures of individual differences in various psychological properties (e. g. intelligence, personality, self-esteem) including people(cid:495)s abilities to. Sir francis galton brilliant people often have brilliant relatives, intelligence was hereditary (and based. Factor analysis statistical analysis that examines all of the correlations between all of the items and determines if any of them are highly correlated with each other. Spearman correlated diff. intelligence tests with each other, success. Galton was trying to make a general description of intelligence with physical factors, unsuccessful. Reject idea because don(cid:495)t like idea that we have different mental abilities, not born equal. Alfred binet, assessment of intelligence collection of higher order mental abilities, unlike galton, he.