PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Standard Score
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Intelligence: the ability to think, understand, reason and cogniively adapt to and overcome obstacles: therefore, intelligence relects not just how mu h you know, but how you recognize and solve problems. 0. 16 indicaing that 16% of the populaion scores below it. Published in 1916 and called the stanford-binet intelligence scale. 10 year old with a mental age of a 7 year old would have an iq of 7/10 100 = 70) Developed by william stern ater stanford-binet test came out. Approaches to intelligence tesing the wechsler adult intelligence scale: wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais): the most commonly used intelligence test used on adolescents and adults. The wais provides a single iq score for each test taker full scale iq but also breaks intelligence into a general ability index (gai) and a cogniive proiciency. The gai measures an individual"s intellectual abiliies w/o placing so much emphasis on how fast s/he can solve problems and make decisions.
