PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Standard Deviation, Longitudinal Study
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Binet"s: the roles of heredity and environment, the influence of ethnic and racial differences, the effects of wealth and poverty, the possibility of improvement. Two types of intelligence (cattell, 1987: ability to draw inferences and understanding relations between new concepts. Factual knowledge about the world that increases with age (e. g. , word meaning, territorial capitals) Measures of intelligence must be based on observable behaviour: modern intelligence tests, like binet"s assessment, observe people"s actions on tasks that require a variety of types of intelligence (e. g. , problem solving, memory, etc. Intelligence tests measure different abilities in children of different ages: they have their greatest success and widest application with older preschoolers and older children (5-6 years old). Iq: the overall quantitative measure of child"s intelligence relative to that of other children. Iqs at different ages are easy to compare. Iq scores for large, representative groups of children of a given age fall into a normal distribution.
