Psychology 1000 Lecture 10: Lecture 3-6 Chapter 10 January 13-20

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

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Then go onto a talk show and be interviewed and have to communicate. He was like a vacuum cleaner, sucked up the language. Learned the language very easily, had no trouble speaking it to the interviewers. Cases like daniel perhaps have to make us rethink what is intelligence . Definition: the ability to acquire knowledge to think and reason effectively and deal adaptively with the environment. Sir francis galton (1822-1911) mental ability is inherited only. Assumptions: mental abilities develop with age, rate at which people gain mental competence is characteristic of the person and is constant over time. Mental age mental level (age) at which a child performs on a. Wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence (1967) Increases up to age 16, little beyond that. Some aspects of intelligence decreases in later years. He discovered that iq scores have been increasing over time in industrialized countries.