PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Body Mass Index, Mood Disorder, The Roots
6 Mar 2014
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This is an optional assignment that can earn you up to 4% extra in the class. This can be used instead of the sona study or in combination with. Remember you cannot hand in synopsis #2 without doing #1! If you are only doing 1, this means you must do article #1. Sir francis galton (1869: hereditary genius, believed that intelligence is hereditary/passed on through families, he measured different sensory abilities (hearing, seeing etc. ) Alfred binet and theodore simon (1905: binet-simon intelligence scale, first formalized, standardized test, only used for children, not adults, used to identify children who are struggling in school, they called the result mental age . Lewis terman (1916: stanford-binet intelligence scale, intelligence quotient (iq) = ma(mental age)/ca(chronological age) x 100. David wechsler (1955: wechsler adult intelligence scale, this was the first scale for adults, normal distribution: plotting their score on the normal distribution, an example of this is when teachers bell curve their marks.
