PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intelligence Quotient, South Dakota Highway 15, Block Design
20 Oct 2017
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An ascribed quality (eye of the beholder) The ability to think, understand, reason, adapt to or overcome obstacles. An abstract concept that is socially constructed. She has an iq of 120 not like she has blue eyes applied survival of the fittest to intelligence. One of the first to promote the idea of quantifying mental abilities. Measure nervous system efficiency (reaction speed, hand strength, skull size) Hired by french gov"t to identify school children needing special education. Observable that dull children perform like younger children and bright children like older. William stern takes concept of mental age one step further: Professor at stanford who revises binet"s test for use in the us. like galton is sympathetic to eugenics. Stanford- binet test test and versions of it become widely applied: henry goddard and the testing of us immigrants (1913, used to restricted immigration from inferior countries in southern and eastern. Heritability varies widely by study. the operational definition of intelligence.
