PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: James Mckeen Cattell, Lewis Terman, Intelligence Quotient

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

Document Summary

Hearing highest or lowest sounds, differentiating between two diff. weights) James mckeen cattell research indicated that people"s abilities on diff sensory tests were not correlated w/ each other or only very weakly: ex. Having good eyesight does not mean you have good hearing: goes against galton"s definition of intelligence. Alfred binet said intelligence should be indicated by complex thinking processes memory, attention, comprehension. Intelligence- ability to think, understand, reason and adapt to overcome obstacles. Stanford-binet test measures innate levels of intelligence (developed by lewis terman) Deviation iq used to calculate adults iq calculated by comparing test score to avg. score for other ppl who are the same age. Wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais) provides full scale iq splits it into general ability index and cognitive proficiency index most common intelligence test. 1: general ability index is computed from verbal comprehension index and perceptual reasoning index.