PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lewis Terman, Peoples Of The Caucasus, Anthropometry

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

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Galton believed since people learn about world through senses, those w superior sensory abilities would be more sensitively attuned to world sensory abilities should be indicator of intelligence anthropometrics: methods of measuring physical and mental variation in people. Cattell revealed people"s sensories weren"t correlated w each other, or only very weakly scores on sensory tests didn"t predict grades. Mental age: average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age. Wais provides single iq score for each test taker, but breaks intelligence into general. Ability index (gai) and cognitive proficiency index (cpi_ tap into individual"s intellectual abilities, without placing emphasis on how fast one can solve problems and make decisions. Raven"s progressive matrices: intelligence test based on pictures, making it relatively. Iq testing in na got boost during wwi. Lewis terman, developer of stanford-binet test worked with us military to develop intelligence tests used to identify which military recruits had potential to become officers and which should be non-officers.