PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heredity, Block Design, Psychometrics
22 Nov 2017
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Intelligence (tentative definition: mental ability to solve problems, learn from experience, and adapt to nove situations. Psychometrics: the study of theory and methods of psychological measurements, skills, knowledge, abilities, attitudes, traits. Sir francis galton (1822-1911: english statistician, polymath, studied heredity of genius. Inventions: twin and adoption studies, eugenics, psychometrics, descriptive stats. Alfred binet: french psychologist, first intelligence test (1905, aim: to identify school children with special learning needs, use: to place children in regular vs. remedial curriculum. Binet-simon intelligence scale: 30 verbal tasks of increasing difficulty, measure of aptitude (vs. achievement, mental age = average score of a given age group. Henry goddard (1866-1957: american psychologist, eugenicist, popularized binet"s test in the us, aim: to identify mental defectives , use: to take away from these people the power of procreation . Lewis terman (1877-1956: american psychologist, eugenicist, longitudinal study of gifted children, stanford-binet intelligence scale (1916, use: curtailing the reproduction of feeble-mindedness , new scoring: iq.
