PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Lewis Terman, Anthropometry, Stereotype Threat

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

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Sir francis galton (1822 - 1911) believed sensory abilities should be an indicator of a person"s intelligence. He is known for his anthropometircs laboratory which attracted many people in. : methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. Alfred binet believed intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes such as memory, attention and comprehension (huge influence today"s perspective in intelligence). Intelligence: the ability to think, understand, reason and adapt to or overcome obstacles. Intelligence and thinking: the stanford binet test: Terman defined standford binet test -> terman adapted willian stern"s concept of the. Mental age: the average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age. Stanford-binet test: a test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence. Intelligence quotient (iq): is calculated by taking a person"s mental age, dividing it by his chronological age, and then multiplying by 100. Both concept of mental age and stanford-binet test do not apply to adults.