PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Chiropractic, The Bell Curve, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Tyson Baker

Document Summary

Can these really capture intelligence ? (probably not: intelligence is complex and there are many types of intelligence. Practical intelligence vs general intelligence : practical intelligence (robert j. sternberg): street smarts . Generally: the ability to come up with efficient solutions to the problems of everyday life. Don"t need education to have practical intelligence: general intelligence (g) (charles spearman): book smarts . A way of referring to a person"s underlying general capacity to process complex information to perform well on a variety of tasks (mental, manual) It involves more than just learning from books! Thought to be measured by intelligence tests (e. g. , wechsler adult. Intelligence quotient (iq) (lewis terman: the most commonly accepted statistic describing intelligence. Originally computed by comparing a child"s score against the scores of other children from a similar population buy of different ages. Calculated by mental age divided by chronological age and then multiplied by 100. 100 became the standard iq for the average child.