PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Louis Leon Thurstone

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Intelligence: ability to direct one"s thinking, adapt to one"s circumstances, and earn from one"s experience. Henry goddard (1866-1957: one of the irst to measure intelligence, discriminatorily towards ellis island immigrants to reveal whether they were feebleminded . Alfred binet (1857-1911) and theodore simon (1872-1961: france went through a series of educaional reforms. Developed the irst intelligence test to idenify children who needed remedial educaion: mental level became mental age. William stern (1871-1938) coined the term mental age . Lewis terman (1877-1956: developed the iq test. Raio iq: staisic obtained by dividing a person"s mental age by physical age x 100. Deviaion iq: staisic obtained by dividing a person"s test score by the average test score of people in the same age group x 100. Intelligence tests do a good job predicing performance in school: do not measure intelligence per se, but tasks that correlate with such . The most widely used intelligence tests today are the standford-binet and the wechsler.