Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Content Validity, Heritability, Treatment As Prevention

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Ability to respond adaptively to different demands of an environment. Ability to acquire knowledge, think and reason effectively, adapt effectively to the environment. Hereditary genius genius within certain families but many of these people came from privileged environments. Nervous system and skull size unrelated to success. But created interest in measurement of mental abilities. Intelligence testing movement beginning of 20th century. Two assumptions about intelligence: 1. mental abilities develop with age, 2. mental competence is a personal characteristic and remains stable over time. William stern"s intelligent quotient ratio of mental age to chronological age, multiplied by 100 (mental age/chronological age x10) Today"s tests don"t use mental age mental age is less useful after 16 now based on a person"s score relative to other people of the same age. Stanford-binet, iq for america - golden standard by 1920s. From the army to schools wechssler adult /children/preschool, primary school intelligence.