PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mental Age, Nomothetic
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Slide 2: most of the research that"s going to be focus in this class is focused on the average human being". Take a bunch of people make them do a task and make then take the average of the task. Individual differences research: how or why some individual are different. Slide 3: people tend to believe that the more intelligent the people are the more prosperous the country will be. A lot of tax payer money are invested in education. It allows you to assess whether certain educational approaches lead to higher levels of success. It may allow one to tailor a child"s education to their current abilities: they want to customized the education for the really smart students (gifted program) What is intelligence: know how to communicate their idea in a very powerful way, making people think or get engage in the facts. Slide 4: galton he was big on measuring things, both physical and cognitive.
