PSY371H5 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Abilities Test, Intelligence Quotient, Lewis Terman
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Participation: discussing theories that are still in debate. Lay out the basis of what you are going to be arguing. Longer essay questions are going to be based on the discussions about the readings. Paper: opinion piece about a topic discussed in class. It must be maximum 10 pages - double spaced and minimum 6 pages. Francis galton concerned with differences b/w individuals" intelligence: galton focused on individual differences. Large influence on testing and hereditary view of intelligence. Alfred binet was concerned w/ identifying group milestones: binet focused on a more cognitive approached. Influenced information processing view of intelligence and cognitive development. He was rich, privileged intelligent and very successful. He started out training to be a doctor. He came back and decided to study mathematics. He was obsessed with being number 1 and he had a meltdown. Major life interests included measurement and ranking ability. Highly influenced by cousin darwin"s origin of species.
