Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Lewis Terman, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Inductive Reasoning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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Sir frances galton is charles darwin "s cousin. Alfred binet was a french psychologist and does intelligent tests. The rate of which people mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is fairly constant over time. The result of the testing was a score called the mental age. Stern"s intelligence quotient (iq) was the ratio of mental age to chronological age, multiplied by 100: iq = (mental age/chronological age) x 100 e. g. a child who was performing at exactly this level would have an iq of 100. The child with a mental age of ten and a chronological age of eight would have an iq of (10/8) x 100=125. Today: instead of iq, it is based on a person"s performance relative to the scores of other people the same age, with a score of 100 corresponding to the average performance of that age group. Lewis terman a prof at stanford university revised binet"s test and became known as the.