Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Savant Syndrome, Autism Spectrum

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

Document Summary

Correct soluions to insight problems involve: selecive encoding, selecive combinaion, selecive comparison. A host of abiliies (memory creaivity, etc) Several studies indicate that unschooled people in remote villages cannot solve syllogisms. Suggest 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 understand that no mater how to measure intelligence, it may work in one are and not the other. Starts research program to idenify those with low ability. Believes that intelligence was unitary (intelligence is only one thing) (mental quickness) Belief that intelligence was a collecion of higher-order abiliies : no correlaion. Binet and simon develop test in early 1900"s tapping number of abiliies (memory, math, etc) Correlate scores with teacher raings: criterion validity when the test measures something that"s real. Tests revised and concept of mental age introduced. Assign a new test score to mental age group according to norms.