PSYA02H3 Chapter 1-20: Psych all chapter notes.docx

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Intelligence: the ability to think, understand, reason and cognitively adapt to overcome obstacles, not just how much you know, how you recognize and solve problems. The stanford binet test: developed a method of assessing children"s academic achievement at school, law required all children to go to school, but some students were unprepared, their goal, could there be a standardized way of assessing which students would need assistance to catch up, and which students were ahead of the rest, they then came up with an achievement test, the measure of how well a child performed at various cognitive tasks relative to other children of his age, the test measure mental age. Raven"s progressive matrices: an intelligence test that emphasizes problems that are intended not to be bound to a particular language or culture, e. g. determining colours and patterns (cid:224) sequences, does not require knowledge of a specific knowledge, culture or human made object or custom.