PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Soltyrei, Convergent Thinking, Twin
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The psychometric approach to cognitive development is the basis for the wide variety of intelligence tests available for assessing children"s mental abilities. Largely concerned with outcomes and results as opposed to processes. Educators sought methods to identify students who were unable to benefit from regular classroom instructions first successful intelligence test by alfred binet and. French ministry of instruction asked binet to devise an objective method for assigning pupils to special classes one based on mental ability, not classroom disruptiveness. Binet and simon devised a test of general ability that included a variety of verbal and nonverbal items, each requiring thought and judgment. He believed test items should tap complex mental activities involved in intelligent behaviour. First test to associate items of increasing difficulty with chronological age--tests were able to estimate how much a child was behind or ahead of their age mates in intellectual development. In 1916, lewis terman at stanford university adapted it for use with.
