PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Percentile Rank, David Wechsler, Intelligence Quotient
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Intelligence is the ability to think, understand, reason, and cognitively adapt to and overcome obstacles. Thus intelligence reflects not just how much you know, but how you recognize and solve problems. In points between an individual"s score and mean score: percentile rank: the percentage of scores below a certain point. For example, a score of 100 has a percentile rank of . 50, meaning that 50% of the population scores below this level. A score of 85 has a percentile rank of approx . 16, indicating that 16% of the population scores below it. Mental age: the average age or typical test scores for a specific chronological age, rather than intelligence. Stanford-binet test: a test to measure innate (genetic) intelligence. Intelligence quotient (iq: a measurement in which the mental age of an individual is divided by the person"s chronological age and then multiplied by (cid:883)(cid:882)(cid:882).
