PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Intelligence Quotient, Anthropometry, Flynn Effect
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He believed that since ppl learnt through their senses, an individual"s sensory abilities would indicate their intelligence. He created a set of 17 sensory tests: ex. the highest and lowest sounds ppl could hear. Anthropometrics (the measurement of ppl) was the methods of measuring physical and mental variations in ppl. Binet believed that intelligence should be measured based on complex thinking processes: i. e. memory, attention, and comprehension. Defined intelligence to be the ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome obstacles. If the person"s mental and actual age is the same then their. Iq is always 100 this is known as the avg. Contains 2 parts: general ability index (gai) and cognitive. Proficiency index (cpi: general ability index (gai) measures verbal comprehension and perceptual reasoning, cognitive proficiency index (cpi) measures working memory and processing speed. This is an intelligence test based on pictures, thus taking out any language and cultural biases.
