PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-20: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Percentile Rank, Intelligence Quotient

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Zachariah Campbell

Document Summary

9. 1 - intelligence, aptitude, and cognitive abilities ! Intelligence is the ability to think, understand, reason, and cognitively adapt to and overcome obstacles. Thus intelligence re ects not just how much you know, but how you recognize and solve problems. In short, achievement tests measure current abilities and aptitude tests predict future performance. Standardization and norms: standardized test: is a test that has a set of questions and problems that are o administered and scored in a uniform (in other words, standardized). Intelligence test scores can be compared because of the existence of norms: statistics that allow individuals to be evaluated relative to a typical or standard score: standard deviation: measures variability around a mean. In intelligence tests, this can be interpreted as the typical number of points between an individual"s score and mean score: percentile rank: the percentage of scores below a certain point.