PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intelligence Quotient, Mental Age, Neural Adaptation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

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Week13 cognitive psychology iii: intelligence, reasoning and decision making: differential approach focuses on understanding and quantifying how individuals differ when it comes to traits such as intelligence, personality, or self-esteem, binet-simon: 1. The test was designed to identify mentally challenged children by assessing scholastic skills (for example, memory, vocabulary, common knowledge), and it succeeded. Intelligence quotient (iq) he divided mental age by chronological age to produce a ratio, called the ratio iq. One problem with ratio iq is that although a person"s mental age eventually stops, their chronological age increases until death: deviation iq: 1. A procedure for computing the intelligence quotient; compares an individual"s score with those received by other individuals of the same chronological age. He arbitrarily chose a score of 100 to describe the average score of a given age group: verbal or nonverbal-wechsler developed two very popular iq tests: the wechsler adult. Intelligence scale (wais) and the wechsler intelligence scale for children (wisc).