Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Lewis Terman, Army Beta, Army Alpha

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Psych chapter 10: the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Intelligence in historical perspective: galton and binet. Sir francis galton: quantifying mental ability: thought people had inherited mental constitutions, dismissed that more successful people had come from privileged environments, measured nervous system efficiency unrelated to mental ability. Alfred binet"s mental tests: assumed mental abilities developed with age, assumed that the rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is constant over time ex. Child lagging at 5 will also be lagging at 10: asked teachers what questions kids at a certain age would be able to solve, came up with mental age. Intelligence quotient (iq) ratio of mental age to chronological age, multiplied by 100. Iq is based off a person"s performance relative to the scores of other people the same age.