PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.1: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Carol Dweck, Lewis Terman
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Sir francis galton: because people learn through senses, those with increased abilities have increased intelligence. Anthropometrics: (measurement of people); methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. Colleague: james mckeen catell took tests to u. s. found no connection between sensory abilities and/or intelligence. Alfred binet: intelligence should be indicated by complex thinking processes (memory, attention, and comprehension) Intelligence: ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to overcome obstacles. Along with simon: intelligence measurement for french kids o. 30 tasks of increasing difficulty: established average test score for each age. Mental age: average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age. Stanford binet test: test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence: adopted stern"s iq (calculated by taking person"s mental age, dividing it by chronological age x 100) Mental age and iq did not make sense when applied to adults: deviation iq calculated by comparing person"s test score with average test score for people of the same age.
