PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cadency, Job Performance, Asian Americans

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

Document Summary

Intelligence is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations. Cultures deem intelligent whatever attributes enable success in that culture. Intelligence consists of the abilities to: reasons abstractly, adapt to novel environmental circumstances, acquire knowledge, benefit from experience. The first intelligence tests were galton"s tests (sensory-motor-tests including two-point thresholds, jnd"s, reaction time for sounds and timing for naming colours) Cattell knew of binet"s work, but adapted galton"s tests instead. Higher mental processes were poorly defined and unquantifiable (sokal, 1987) Cattell gave his sensory-motor tests to students and correlated them with academic performance he found low correlations gym class performance correlated higher with his tests than academic performance. The french government wanted to objectively identify slow and fast learners. Alfred binet & theodore simon (1904) first intelligence test. They developed questions to predict children"s progress based on their mental age.