Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Mental Age, Cultural Assimilation, Social Environment

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

Document Summary

Intelligence: the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Sir francis galton: quantifying mental ability: eminence and genius seemed to occur within certain families. Binet"s 2 assumptions: mental abilities develop with age, the rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is fairly constant over time. Mental age: the mental level or age at which a child is performing as determined by. Standardized interview in which the child responds to a series of questions. William stern"s intelligence quotient (iq): the ratio of mental age to chronological age, multiplied by 100: iq=(mental age/chronological age) x 100. Stanford-binet (mid 1920"s): became widely accepted in north america as the gold standard for measuring mental amplitude: mostly verbal items, yielded a single iq score. Army alpha: a verbally oriented test that was used to screen large numbers of u. s. army recruits for intellectual fitness.