PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Memory Span, Frequency Distribution, Heritability
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Sir francis galton believed intelligence was major achievement of evolution in humans: eugenics ~ need to improve genetic quality of human population. Alfred binet proposed idea of mental age (intelligence age is it average/ normal: lewis terman translated this test (stanford- binet test) Intelligence"s three- level hierarchy: general intelligence, memory, recalling movie titles, remember birthdays, reasoning, solving logic problems, making legal arguments, numerical ability, doing income taxes, reconcile check book. Information; does not decline with age: horn and cattell. Thurstone primary mental abilities: word fluency, verbal comprehension, numerical ability, spatial visualization, associative memory, perceptual speed, reasoning. Multiple intelligences (sternberg: analytic intelligence, creative intelligence, practical intelligence, tacit knowledge test how experts deal with situations; practical, age relates to fluid intelligence (analytical) but not tacit knowledge. How we measure intelligence (practical: stanford binet, wechsler intelligence scale for children, wechsler adult intelligence scale, sat, act. Iq: alfred binet, chronological age, mental age.
