PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children, Habituation, Factor Analysis
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For piaget intelligence is when individuals have development cognitive components to answer questions to think about world. There is a huge range of potential range of characteristics that we take as being intelligence. The goal of the test was to predict school performance, to identify children at risk in an academic setting. The test was going to measure the school skills, like attention, memory. He developed the question of mental age; intelligence developed with age so the items on the test were age graded. Cant pass the items of ur age group, you have a bad mental age intelligence. It doesn"t identify really the children at risk. Stanford binet iq test is the test we know now. It involved verbal abilities that not all children have, so it can not be used at all ages (turner test) Weschlers scales (wisc iv for children 6-16 yrs) also has the wppsi iii for 2-7.
