PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Motor Coordination, Mental Rotation, Frontal Lobe
1 May 2017
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Iq: was ma/ca x 100, now deviation score, ma= mental age, ca= chronological age. Wechster"s 3 tests: wppsi iii, ages 4 to 6 and , wisc iv, ages 6 to 7, wais iii, ages 16 and up. Individual tests are expensive and takes time: group tests are efficient and cheaper, terman"s study of geniuses found they tend to be, well adjusted. Giftedness: can be high iq or special talent, terman"s longitudal study found people with high iq"s to be well adjusted, successful, acceleration like skipping grades vs. enrichment like extra courses. Intellectual disabilities: formerly not included but now mainstreamed, causes include genetic and chromosal defect, brain injury, chemical deficiency. Intellectual disabled fall into which category: mild, on which side of nature-nurture debate of intelligence was galton, nature, galton"s nature-nurture controversy twin studies. Interracial adoption: enrichment, flynn effect, 1940"s, every decade 3 points goes up, birth order, first born has slightly higher iq.
