Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Temporal Lobe, Brain Damage, White Matter

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

Document Summary

Galton intelligence unitary, sensory ability, hard-wired . Wechsler wais-iv (for adults standardized used most often), deviation iq (above or. Terman stanford-binet (not for adults only kids), iq below the mean) Dove (1968) chitterling test culture-fair tests. Savant syndrome: people are amazing with certain abilities but they have autism which prevents them from doing basic functions and daily day-to-day things like counting change. Idiot: was accepted category of intellectual impairment at the time (ig < 25) The individuals are autistic and show mild intellectual problems which isn"t that bad and do not need constant taking care of. Esp fine-tuned ability to pick up small cues. Very rare less than 100 reports of prodigious ability. 6 times more likely in males than in females. 1 in 23 relatives of 5 savants: sensory deprivation. Autistic kids most likely group to develop syndrome (1 in 10) But 90% do not **most likely not from the concentration factor.