PSYC 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children, Multiple Choice, Standard Deviation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3250
• Professor: Deborah Powell

Document Summary

Intelligence, also called general mental ability refers to the existence of systematic individual differences in the performance of tasks that involve manipulation, retrieval, evaluation, or processing of information. In search of a definition of intelligence, psychologists have used factor analysis to study correlations between tests measuring varied abilities presumed to reflect the underlying attribute of intelligence. Found that measures of intelligence tended to correlate to various degrees with each other. Indifference of the indicator: the actual content of an item should be irrelevant because the test is designed to measure a mental process. In 1904, the ministry of public instruction in france appointed binet to develop a measure for: Identifying school children who were unable to benefit from education in the public schools o: within this group needed to identify children who would be most likely to benefit from special education. In 1905 binet & simon developed first scale to provide a practical and valid measure of general intelligence.