PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Factor Analysis, Neuroglia, Falsifiability

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Kyle Danielson

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Leilani muir: fallopian tubes surgically destroyed bcuz of sexual sterilization. Galton: intelligence inherited -> (measures) relatives x practice & effort. Ppl learn abt the world thru senses -> sensory abilities shd be indicator of intelligence. Anthropometrics - methods of measuring physical & mental variation in humans. > james mckeen cattle took it from uk to us -> (prob) 1. Diff sensory tests x correlate -> x indicators of the same thing (intelligence) 2. Intelligence: (by alfred binet) ability to think, understand, reason & adapt to or overcome obstacles. Ab & theodore simon hired by french gvnt to test children -> prov specialised edu to retarded children. Mental age: average intellectual ability score for children of a spec age -> chronological age > mental age = struggle @ sku. Lewis terman: establish average scores for each age lv -> publish stanford-