PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Internal Consistency, Lewis Terman, Predictive Validity
30 Oct 2020
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Concept or construct that refers to the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Alfred binet across generations with certain families. Showed through study of family trees that eminence and genius seemed to occur. Exhibited belief bias, and dismissed fact that successful people often came from. Approach to mental skills measurement fell into disfavour because measures of privileged environments nervous system efficiency proved unrelated to socially relevant measures of mental ability. Developed test to help identify children who require educational help at early age. Rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is fairly constant over time problems for) Tests would result in score called mental age (age at which a child can solve. William stern provided a relative score called intelligence quotient. Problem is that increases in mental age begin to slow down dramatically around.
