PSYC 304 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children, Child Neglect, Stereotype Threat
25 Aug 2018
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In achieving personal goals: analytic ability: analyzing problems and generating different solutions, creative ability: dealing adaptively with novel situations and problems, practical ability: knowing what solution or plan will actually work. Sternberg: successful intelligence is revealed in people"s pursuit of goals. Stanford-binet: terman described performance as an iq - ration of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100. Iq of 100 because mental age = chronological age. Individual testing optimizes motivation and attention of child and provides opportunity for a sensitive examiner to assess factors that may influence performance. Infant tests: bayley scales of infant development: 1-42 month-olds, 5 scales: cognitive, language, motor, social emotional and adaptive behavior, used to determine if development is progressing normally - low scores signal at risk for problems later. Stability of iq scores: scores from infant intelligence tests not related to iq obtained in childhood, ado or adulthood, 18-24 months infant iq predict later iq.
