PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Intellectual Disability, Shareware

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Penelope Kostopoulos

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Emphasis on benevolence, doing what is right, importance of humility, knowledge of oneself. Skills that help to facilitate and maintain harmonious and stable intergroup relations e. g. the word for intelligence, nagware, actually means to be prudent and cautious, particularly in social relationships. If we agree, the, to de ne intelligence as what the tests of intelligence tests, there is a good deal that we can say about it. In research studies, intelligence is whatever the intelligence test measures. Intelligence tests: a method for assessing an individual"s mental aptitudes and comparing them with others using numerical scores. Aptitude tests: attempt to predict your ability to learn new skills ~ future performance. Eugenics: movement in the early 20th century to improve a population"s genetic stock by encouraging those with good genes to reproduce, discouraging those with bad genes from reproducing, or both.