PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Flynn Effect, Job Performance, Normal Distribution
2 Sep 2016
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Intelligence and iq testing- jan 6/16 chapter 9. Intelligence- the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations. In 1921, a panel of 14 experts said that intelligence consists of the abilities to: reason abstractly, adapt to novel environmental circumstances, acquire knowledge, benefit from experience. 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. Content: object naming, word meanings, drawing pictures from memory, incomplete sentences, 3-word sentence completion. Virtually all items on modern intelligence tests have followed in binet and. When researchers looked at the correlations between simon and binet"s items, they discovered that all the correlations were positive. People who did well on one type of question (ex. vocabulary), also did well on other types of questions (ex. spatial reasoning).
