Psychology 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Brain Damage, Paralanguage, Criterion Validity
4 Feb 2016
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Several studies indicate that unschooled people in remote villages cannot solve syllogisms (a logical analysis) o. All cats have 4 legs, i have 4 legs, therefore i am a cat. Suggests that preliterate people do not (or can not) use logical analysis. All kpelle men are rice farmers; mr. smith is not a rice farmer. Ecological approach doesn"t necessarily work for everyone. We don"t guess at think that we do no know . Binet (from france) request from french government (public school mandatory) belief that intelligence was a collection of higher-order abilities . Ability results from learning (not hardwired into you) Binet & simon develop test in early 1900"s tapping a number of o abilities (memory, math, etc. ) o question and an outcome assessed at the same time. Criterion validity extent to which a measure is related to an outcome. Concurrent validity refers to comparison between the measure in. Tests revised and concept of mental age introduced.
