Psychology 2080A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Standard Score, Information Processing, Mental Age

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2080A/B
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Chapter 9 theories of intelligence and binet scales. Tr taylor identified three independent research traditions that have been employed to study nature of human intelligence: psychometric, information processing, and cognitive approaches: psychometric approach. Examines the elemental structure of a test. We examine properties of a test through an evaluation of its correlates and underlying dimension. Examines processes that underlie how we learn and solve problems: cognitive tradition focuses on how humans adapt to real world demands, of three approaches, psychometric is the oldest and is the focus of this chapter. Because binet believed intelligence expressed itself through judgmental, attentional, and reasoning facilities, he decided to concentrate on finding tasks related to these three facilities. In developing tests, used trial and error as well as experimentation and hypothesis-testing procedures: guided by two major concepts that were binets most profound contribution to study of intelligence: age differentiation ad general mental ability.