Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kinesics, White Matter, Complement Factor B

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

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Psych lecture notes 2 decepion lecture 2: intelligence jan, 14/16. Bob has a mental age of 10 and an iq of 200. How old is bob: 10, 20, 15, 5, can"t tell from this info. Wechsler: wais-iv, deviaion iq (need to know how many standard deviaions you are above. & below the mean need z score) Dove (1966): chiterling test culture-fair tests ex. Validity: test measures what it is supposed to reliability: consistency of measurement. Excel in a narrow range of abiliies. Idiot was accepted category of intellectual impairment at the ime iq < 25 lightening-fast math. Esp (abiliies to pick up on small cues) sensory discriminaion can have muliple skills. All linked w/ phenomenal (but narrow) memory. Very rare less than 100 reports of prodigious ability. 6 imes more likely in males than in females. Perhaps savants have photographic memory unlikely.