PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Carol Dweck, Intelligence Quotient

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

Document Summary

Psych 101 chapter 9 (intelligence testing) notes. Anthropometrics (literally the measurement of people ) method of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. Argued that intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes such as memory, attention, and comprehension. French government wanted an objective way of identifying retarded children who could perhaps benefit more from a specialized education. Settled on 30 tasks that they believed to comprise intelligence ranging in order of increasing difficulty ex. Forming sentences from predetermined lists of works, reproducing drawings from memory, being able to explain how things differed from each other, e. t. c. Called the stanford-binet test and adapted by many institutions after receiving quite the positive reception. Terman - began describing the test as a test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence . Binet - always viewed the test as a measure of a child"s current abilities, not as a measure of innate capacity.