PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Educational Entrance Examination, Learning Disability, Block Design
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Believed that better senses meant more intelligence. Believed in higher mental processes aka reasoning,understanding, judgement. Believed performance on one cognitive test should be comparable to score on another. Capacity to learn new ways of solving a problem. Musical, bodily kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, linguistic, logical. Unclear why certain abilities are classified as intelligences. Causal relationships between job performance/practical intelligence is unclear. ****evidence suggests cerebral cortex development is slower in gifted kids*** There are problems with self -reports of intelligence. Rely on norms to compare test results. Binet"s concept of mental age led to iq. Are corresponding to average person"s performance on intelligence test. Iq works well with kids not adults. Compares one person with what is normal for their age. **iq below 70 inability to complete daily functions (mild, moderate severe, profound)*** Iq is environmental as well (education, early intervention, nutrition, poverty, early deprivation, expectancy effects) **average iq rises 3 points every 10 years (flynn effect)**
