PSY371H5 Lecture Notes - Mental Age, Face Validity, Discriminant Validity
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Tests will only cover lecture material; the assigned readings are just to form. January 11, 2013 opinions and understand the topics. Major life interests included measurement and ranking of ability. Highly influenced by cousin darwin"s origin of species. Went to med school on account of his father"s wishes. His anthropometric laboratory measured keenness of sensation and individual differences in intelligence. Invented regression and correlation to describe the relationship between items that tended to be related. In hereditary genius he proposed that eminence was passed down from generation to generation. Introduced nature vs. nurture debate, twin studies of intelligence and eugenics movement. If intelligence is inherited, then why bother educating the less eminent and their resources should be revoked therefore really controversial issue. Trained as a lawyer, binet was interested in science and human development. Believed intelligence develops with age, is highly malleable by experience, and is not unitary. With his graduate student, theodore simon, developed a cognitive abilities test for.
