PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ratio Test, Standardized Test, Factor Analysis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

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Explain what intelligence is and how it is measured. Differential approach: an approach in psychology devoted to tests and measures of individual differences in various psychological properties including ones abilities to solve problems o. It focuses on how individuals differ when it comes to traits such as intelligence, personality, or self esteem. Galton believed that brilliant people had brilliant relatives. He was interested in determining the biological differences that led to differences in intelligence and thought that doing so could have enormous implications. o. Eg: if intelligence was based on biology then people would not spend money in schooling the less intelligent o. Galton believed that intelligence is based on biology and reasoned that it must be related to other biological based phenomena. He thought to determine the relationship between intelligence and biological attributes like head size, sensory discrimination ability and neural quickness (the speed at which one processes info) o.