PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Knowledge Acquisition, Flynn Effect, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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The binet-simon test designed to distinguish btw children of normal and subnormal intelligence. Intelligence: a fundamental faculty, the alternation or lack of which is of the utmost importance for practical life. Judgment, practical sense, initiative, adaptation (judge, comprehend, reason) Stanford-binet: iq (intelligence quotient) = (ma (mental age) / ca (chronological are)) x 100. A normal child will have an iq of 100. Begins with a set of correlations btw several measures e. g. diff mental tests. Statistical procedures are used to derive a number of underlying variables (factors) that may explain the structure of the set of correlations. Derived from the analysis of correlations btw diff tests of mental abilities. General factor (g) it varies from individual to individual but remains the same for any one individual (primary factor on which various specific factors depend) General intelligence (g): the part of intelligence that is common to all abilities. General/nonspecific energy that could be directed towards specific.
