PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Language Acquisition Device, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

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Intelligence test of today similar ++ to that of binet. French educational authorities wanted to develop a test to measure the extent to which a child could benefit from schooling. Intelligence: a fundamental faculty, the alteration of lack of which is of the utmost importance for practical life (as defined by binet and simon). Intelligence = practical sense, ability the faculty of adapting oneself to circumstances and consists of activities such as reasoning and comprehension. Items are arranged in a real order of increasing difficulty. Allows children to be compared in terms of their mental age. Standford-binet test: adapation of the scale for the american context. Significant relationship between iq and teacher"s estimates of children"s intelligence. Iq= (ma / ca) x 100 normal iq = 100. Factor analysis: a statistical procedure that derives a number of underlying factors that may explain the structure of a set of correlations. Spearman proposed the two-factor theory of intelligence.