PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anthropometry

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Most psychological research aims to understand the average human this is sometimes called nomothetic research. Some areas of research tries to understand why and how some humans differ from others in which it focuses on individual differences . Isn"t an easy thing to define, so we ask the question, can we measure intelligence? . Benefit of measuring intelligence: allows you to assess whether certain educational approaches lead to higher levels of success. Assessing intelligence: psychologists define intelligence testing as a method for assessing an individual"s mental aptitudes and compares them with others using numerical scores. Galton: into measuring humans in every possible ways, including measuring their ability to make sensory discriminations which he assumed was linked to intellectual process, linked to normal distributions, anthropometrics: Referred to methods of measuring physical and mental. Lewis terman: adapted binet"s test for american school children, named the test the stanford-binet test . William stern: introduced the formula of iq (intelligence quotient)