PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, James Mckeen Cattell, Intelligence Quotient

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Deining intelligence is not a simple mater. The history of psychology has seen dozens of atempts and methods for measuring intelligence. Sir francis galton (1822-1911: believed people learned through senses, sensory abiliies should be an indicator of a person"s intelligence, created a set of 17 sensory tests. Example: highest and lowest sounds people could hear or their ability to tell the diference between objects of slightly diferent weights, and began tesing people"s abiliies in his anthropometric laboratory: anthropometrics. Methods of measuring physical and mental variaion in humans. James mckeen catell (galton"s colleagues: took his tests to the united states and began measuring the abiliies of university students, research revealed: people"s abiliies on diferent sensory tests were not correlated with each other, or only very weakly. Intelligence and thinking: the stanford - binet test. Alfred binet: argued that intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes.