PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Intelligence Quotient, Psy, Memory Span
25 Jan 2017
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What is intelligence: general mental ability that involves the ability to reason. Assessmet of intelligence: alfred binet (france, 1905) Objective test to separate developmentally disabled from normal schoolchildren to replace subjective views of teachers. Designed to identify areas where special education could help, not to stigmatize: mental age. A measure of intelligence test performance devised by binet. Chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8. Assessment of intelligence: stanford-binet the widely used american revision of binet"s original intelligence test revised by terman at stanford university, intelligence quotient (iq) Defined originally the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100. On contemporary tests the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100. Assessing intelligence: wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais): most widely used intelligence test.
