PSYC 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Dyslexia, Mendelian Inheritance, Mental Model
28 Mar 2017
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Alfred binet and his colleague th ophile simon developed the first widely used intelligence test. Its purpose was to identify children who were unlikely to benefit from standard instruction in the classroom. One of binet"s key insights was that intelligence includes diverse high-level capabilities that need to be assessed in order to measure intelligence accurately. Intelligence can be viewed as a single trait, such as g; as a few separate abilities, such as thurstone"s primary mental abilities; or as a very large number of specific processes, such as those described in information-processing analyses. G(general intelligence): cognitive processes that influence the ability to think and learn on all intellectual tasks. Children who do well on one tend to do well on others. Measures of g, such as overall scored on intelligence tests, correlate positively with school grades and achievement test performance. General intelligence correlated with information-processing speed, neural transmission, and brain volume.
