PSYCO105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Spatial Memory, Operational Definition, Memory Span
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Intelligence - the ability to direct one"s thinking, adapt to one"s circumstances, and learn from one"s experiences. Binet and simon the first iq test. Test was made up of 30 tasks that included solving logic problems, remembering words, copying pictures, distinguishing edible and inedible foods, making rhymes, and answering questions. Created to measure a child"s aptitude for learning, independent of the child"s prior educational achievement: aptitude one"s capability for something; can be an acquired or innate skill/ability, they referred to their measurement as natural intelligence . Teachers could identify each child"s mental level : mental level = mental age, the difference between their mental and actual age was used as a method for determining if a child was developing normally. This was later formalized into the ratio intelligence quotient (ratio iq score) Ratio iq a statistic obtained by dividing a person"s mental age by the person"s physical age, and then multiplying the quotient by 100.
