Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Criterion Validity, Mental Age, Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Correct solutions to insight problems involve: selective encoding, selective combination, selective comparison. What is intelligence: a host of abilities. Memory, creativity etc : what a test measures, but tests can be misleading, several studies indicate that unschooled people in remote villages cannot solve syllogisms, suggests that preliterate people do not, or cannot use logical analysis, scribner (1977) Psychometric approach to intelligence: finding out how to measure it, galton (1869) Relatives of intelligent people, is it inheritable. Starts research program to identify those with low ability. Believes that intelligence was unitary (mental quickness: binet. Request from french government to research, public school mandatory. Belief that intelligence was a collection of higher order abilities . Sharp contrast to galton: binet and simon develop test in early 1900"s tapping a number of abilities (memory, math, etc , correlate scores with teacher ratings. Tests revised and concept of mental age introduced. Get age norms: mean perfomances of people in that age group.