PSYC 1010 Midterm: PSYC 1010 - Test 3 Notes (Summer 2011)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steele

Document Summary

Psychological tests are standardized measures of mental or personality behavior. High validity: existing correlation between test results. Low validity: non-existing or little correlation between test results. Sir francis galton designed the early forms of intelligence testing as a way of showing that intelligence can be genetically inherited (similar to charles darwin). He believed that intelligence was related to things like reaction time and sensitivity to physical stimuli. Alfred binet later developed a more modern device to measure a child"s mental age. He emphasized more cognitive abilities of a child than galton"s psychophysical abilities. Lewis terman revised binet"s original scale into the stanford-binet (which wilhelm. Stern introduced intelligence quotient [iq] as the standard method to test potential and knowledge. Iq tests are exceptionally reliable, but mainly under the scope of the west. David wechsler developed the adult intelligent scale as a substitute for stanford-binet. Bell curve refers to the mental classification of iq scores (100 being in the middle).