PSYC 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lewis Terman, Job Performance

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 106
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

For more than a century, psychologists have asked four questions about. Feebleminded. : alfred binet (1857 1911; left) and theodore simon (1872 1961; right) developed the first intelligence test to children who needed remedial education. Intelligence tests do a good job or predicting performance in school. Do not measure intelligence per se, but tasks that correlate with such: the most widely used intelligence tests today are the stanford-binet and the wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais). Intelligence test scores correlate with a wide variety of successful life events and accomplishments. Predicts academic performance, occupational status, job performance, and income. Correlates with general cognitive ability: higher intelligence scores correlate with being liberal and atheistic. Income and intelligence among siblings: this graph shows the average annual salary of a person who has an iq of. 90 109 (shown in pink) and of his or her siblings who have higher or lower.