Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Psychological Testing, Soltyrei, Meteorology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Intelligence is the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively and to deal adaptively with the environment. Alfred binet"s mental tests: modern intelligence-testing movement began at the turn of the 20th century, when. It is based on a person"s performance relative to the scores of other people the same age, with a score of 100 corresponding to the average performance of that age group. In 39 the wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais) appeared, followed by the. Wechsler intelligence scale for children (wisc) in 55 and the wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence (wppsi) in 67: wechsler scales have undergone several revisions and today wais-iv and wisc- V are the most popular individually administered intelligence tests in north. The psychometric approach: the structure of intellect: psychometrics is the statistical study of psychological tests, this approach tries to identify and measure the abilities that underlie individual differences in performance.