PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Factor Analysis, Anthropometry, Genomics
2 Nov 2017
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Draws its material from many sources and organizes them into a harmonious entity. Procedures for measuring variations in human physical and mental abilities. He had to reject the idea that intelligence is a consequence of keen sensory abilities. Minimal correlation between the different sensory abilities of individuals: eg. Having great visual abilities does not mean that a person will also have great hearing abilities. Required specific abilities to capture the full range of reasons as to how someone can understand, reason and adapt to overcome obstacles. Developed the binet-simon intelligence scale, slide 18. If a (cid:272)hild"s (cid:272)hro(cid:374)ologi(cid:272)al age is (cid:1005)(cid:1004), (cid:271)ut their s(cid:272)ore (cid:373)ost (cid:272)losel(cid:455) (cid:373)at(cid:272)hes the a(cid:448)erage score of 8-year-olds, their mental age would be 8. Terman succeeded in selling his intelligence tests to the us military during the world war i, and later on to the us public school system.
