PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Anthropometry, Mental Age
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Galton believed sensory abilities should be an indicator of a person"s intelligence. Anthropometrics methods of measuring physical and mental variation in human. But the abilities on different sensory tests were not correlated with each other can"t be indicators of intelligence. Intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes: memory, attention, comprehension. Intelligence the ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome obstacles. Mental age the average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age. Stanford-binet test a test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence. Intelligence quotient (iq) calculated by taking a person"s mental age, dividing it by his chronological age, and then multiplying by 100. But this does not make sense to adults -> iq deviation. Deviation is calculated by comparing the person"s test score with the average score for ppl of the same age. Wais most common intelligence test in use today for adolescents and adults.
