PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 30: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Content Validity, Gifted Education

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Intelligence tests: a method for assessing a individual"s mental aptitudes + comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores. Scientists questioned whether nature selects successful traits through survival of the fittest, possible to measure natural ability. Modern intelligence movement began 20th century france, passed law requiring all children attend school. Mental age: a measure of intelligence test performance devised by binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said t have a mental age of 8. Binet + simon theorized that mental aptitude is a general capacity that shows up in various ways. Binet wanted to identify french schoolchildren needing special attention, feared it would label children + limit opportunities. Stanford-binet: the widely used american revision by terman at stanford uni of binet"s original intelligence test.