PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Memory Span, Anagrams, South Dakota Highway 15
22 Dec 2016
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The ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome obstacles. An abstract concept that is socially constructed. She has an iq of 120 not like she has blue eyes . Quantifying superiority (sir francis galton 1822-1911: charles darwin"s cousin. Applied survival of the ttest to intelligence: eugenics movement, nature vs. nurture, wanted to measure innate mental abilities. One of the rst to promote the idea of quantifying mental abilities. Measured nervous system ef ciency (e. g. reaction speed, hand strength, skull size etc. ) Predicting school achievement (alfred binet 1857-1911: hired by french gov"t to identify school children needing special education, observed that dull children perform like younger children and bright children like older. William sterm and intelligence quotation: used tests to measure mental judgment. Direction, adaption and children: emphasized environment. Intelligence quotient: william stern takes concepts of mental age one step further, iq = (mental age/chronological age) x 100.
