PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Predictive Validity, Normal Distribution, Content Validity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

One general ability vs several speciic abiliies. Modern tests of mental abiliies: principles of test construcion. A sample of behavior at a given point. Method to assess mental apitudes and compare them numerically with others. Devised tests that approximated modern iq tests. Intelligence should be measures by task performance, reasoning and problem solving ability. Slow children are like normal ones but retarded in mental growth. Ideniied: mental age (ma, ability to reason, chronological age (ca, years since birth, devised a scale to measure ability to reason. Revised binet"s test and standardized administraion and called it stanford-binet. People compared to others of same age and 100 = average iq. 96% of cases are between 70 and 130. Ability to learn from experience, solve problems and use knowledge to adapt to new situaions. Intelligence as a general or basic underlying capacity for comprehension and reasoning. Intelligence tests sample mental abiliies that are relaively independent.