PSYA02H3 Chapter 9: Psychology Chapter 9.docx

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

Document Summary

Intelligence testing attempt began with galton who believed that people with greater sensory abilities would be able to learn more about the world. Galton created a set of 17 sensory tests (i. e measuring highest/lowest sounds a person can hear, being able to tell a difference between weights, etc) in his anthropometrics lab. Anthropometrics: (literally measurement of people) methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. Galton"s colleague, cattell, found that two measures don"t correlate well (good eyesight does not necessarily mean good hearing) which means they can"t be indicators of intelligence. Binet argues that intelligence indicated as complex thinking processes (i. e memory, attention) Intelligence: ability to think, understand, reason and adapt to overcome obstacles. Binet and simon did thirty different tasks increasing in difficulty. These tests measured a child s mental age: average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age. Stanford-binet test: test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence.