PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cultural Bias, Heritability, Intellectual Disability
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Intelligence: expressed in different domains, the absent-minded professor. Intelligence is functional: directed at solving problems. Intelligence is defined and shaped by culture: (cid:862)what i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)(cid:272)e tests (cid:373)easure (cid:863) Intelligence quotient: to allow for comparison of test scores among persons, l. terman devised the concept of intelligence quotient (iq): Iq test scores predict ability to succeed in school (valid use) Iq tests are often criticized because of: minimal theoretical basis (no underlying construct was used to devise tests, cultural bias, scores depend on language, cultural experiences. Immigrants from europe were deemed mental defectives because they had poor test scores: tests were administered in english to non-english-speaking, correlation between iq score and doing well in school is 0. 5% i(cid:373)(cid:373)igra(cid:374)ts Approaches to intelligence: psychometric approach: statistical techniques are used to define intellectual skills and abilities. Information-processing: examine mental processes: multiple intelligences: notion that intelligence is a function of multiple systems.
