PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: David Wechsler, Twin Study, Windows Management Instrumentation

• School: Lakehead University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Mike Moland

Document Summary

Intelligence: the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, use our knowledge to adapt to new situations. Consists of the ability to: reason abstractly, adapt to novel environmental circumstances, acquire knowledge, benefit from experience. Alfred binet & theodore simon (1904)= first intelligence test. They developed questions to predict children"s progress based on mental age. Terman selected 1500 high school students who had iq"s of 135 or higher and followed them for decades. He found they were not frail or non-athletic; they didn"t burn out as adults and had lower rates of mental illness. Gardener: linguistic, logical/mathematical, spatial, bodily kinesethic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic. Sternberg: analytical (book smart), creative, practical (street smart) Recent studies show correlation between brain size and intelligence. People who score high on intelligence tests: perceive stimuli faster, retrieve information from memory quicker, show faster brain response times. Developed the wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais) and later the same scale for children (waisc) for preschoolers.