Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Standard Deviation, Psych, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Smoking volcanoes can be bad for you health. according to chomsky, this sentence has: 2 deep and 1 surface structure. Correct solutions to insight problems involve: selective encoding, selective combination, selective comparison. A host of abilities (memory, creativity, etc) Several studies indicate that unschooled people in remote villages cannot solve syllogisms (all cats have 4 legs, have 4 legs, therefore i am a cat) Suggests that preliterate people do not (or can not) use logical analysis. Scribner (1977: all kpelle men are rice farmers, mr. smith is not a rice farmer. Kpelle man: egological approach, kpelle people said they cannot answer because they don"t have the info to talk about it and make a guess. Binet & simon: develop test in early 1900"s tapping a number of abilities (memory, math, etc, correlate scores with teacher ratings (ask who is smartest) Terman (& stern: adapts binet scale for use in the u. s. while at stanford, stanford-binet widely used, i. q.