Psychology 2043A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Hypertension, Hydrocephalus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2043A/B
• Professor: Esther Goldberg

Document Summary

Developmental disabilities, according to the government, have a lot to do with intelligence. We have been testing intelligence for over 100 years. Alfred binet was the man who created the first intelligence test for this, he is known as the father of iq testing. Binet, along with simon (his colleague) were asked to create a method of identifying children at school. This was done because they wanted to figure out who was in need of special education. The binet-simon scale was introduced in 1905 this was the first intelligence test to be used. The test was relatively short (i. e. it only contained 30 items) These tasks were put in order of increasing difficulty, and each task was matched to a specific developmental level. In other words, all tasks were given to a certain age group of children were though to be solvable by a typical child in that age group.