PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Intelligence Quotient, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Flynn Effect
21 Jun 2017
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*all content belongs to jordan richard schoenherr & where cited in lecture slides* Binet-simon test: defined intelligence as : fundamental faculty important for practical life, faculty = judgment (good sense), practical sense, initiative, & adapting oneself to circumstances, ability to judge, comprehend, & reason well. Questions were normed for certain age groups (e. g. , give name & define king vs. president) Stern (1912) introduced distinction b/w mental age" & chronological age": chronological age: how old you actually are, mental age: how old you are in terms of age norms for binet-simon test. Terman (1916) developed notion of intelligence quotient: iq = ma/ca x 100. Gould (1981) noted: translation of test from french to english brought w/ it a cost (violations of binet core assumptions) Important property of intelligence = its stability: to insist that 100" represents avg intelligence suggests there"s a norm. Discovered: iq scores have been increasing over time in industrialized countries (flynn,
